shower
Forms
- Plural
- showers
- present (v1)
- shower
- past (v2)
- showered
- past participle (v3)
- showered
- present participle
- showering
- 3rd person singular
- showers
Definitions
1.A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
- Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.
- They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter.
- Occasionally, the sun pierces the clouds like a searchlight to illuminate a feature such as a farm, copse or stream, before being overwhelmed by an advancing shower. Wordsworth would have loved it!
2.A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
- There's no water coming out of the shower.
- The phone rang while I was taking a shower.
- Do you shower every day?
3.An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
- I’m going to have a shower.
- I’m going to take a shower.
4.A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
- There's no water coming out of the shower.
- The phone rang while I was taking a shower.
- Do you shower every day?
1.To spray with (a specified liquid) (followed by with).
2.To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance.
3.To bathe using a shower.
4.To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3093
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English schour (“shower”), from Old English sċūr (“shower”), from Proto-West Germanic *skūru (“shower”), from Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“storm, short shower”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north, north wind, cold wind, rain shower”).
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