Usually means: Sheltered, leafy nook in garden.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word bower:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bower: Merriam-Webster
  2. bower, bower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bower, bower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bower: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bower: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bower, bower: Wordnik
  7. bower: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bower, bower: Wiktionary
  9. bower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bower: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bower, bower: Dictionary.com
  13. bower: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bower (surname), Bower, The Bower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bower: Rhymezone
  18. Bower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bower: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Bower: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. bower: FreeDictionary.org
  22. bower: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. bower: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bower: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bower: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bower: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bower: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bower: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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noun:  A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
noun:  (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
noun:  A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
noun:  (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
verb:  To embower; to enclose.
verb:  (obsolete) To lodge.
noun:  A peasant; a farmer.
noun:  Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
noun:  (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
noun:  One who bows or bends.
noun:  A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
noun:  One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
noun:  (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
noun:  A surname.

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