tower
Forms
- Plural
- towers
- present (v1)
- tower
- past (v2)
- towered
- past participle (v3)
- towered
- present participle
- towering
- 3rd person singular
- towers
Definitions
1.A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.
2.An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
3.A strong refuge; a defence.
- A group of giraffes is called a tower.
4.Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
- Suppliers compete separately for the towers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services.
1.To be very tall; to reach a high height.
- The office block towered into the sky.
- The tree will eventually tower taller than any of the others.
- Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers.
2.To be high or lofty; to soar.
- My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
- To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.
- As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2581
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English tūr, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”), Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis). Displaced native Middle English stepel for the general sense of "tower".