different between bower vs ower

English

Pronunciation

• Etymologies 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7:

  (UK) IPA^(key): /ba?.??/, /ba???/

  Rhymes: -a?.?(?), -a??(?)

• Etymologies 5 and 6:

  (UK) IPA^(key): /b??.??/, /b????/

  Rhymes: -???(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bour, from Old English b?r, from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“room, abode”). Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur (“cage”).

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
   • c. 1572, George Gascoigne, A Lady being both wronged by false suspect, and also wounded by the durance of hir husband, doth thus bewray hir grief.

     Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower.

2. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
   • 1748, William Shenstone, to William Lyttleton Esq.

     While friends arrived in circles gay,
     To visit Damon's bower
3. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1

     […] say that thou overheard'st us,

     And bid her steal into the pleached bower,

     Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun,

     Forbid the sun to enter; […]
4. (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

Synonyms

• boudoir

Translations

Verb

bower (third-person singular simple present bowers, present participle bowering, simple past and past participle bowered)

1. To embower; to enclose.
2. (obsolete) To lodge.

Etymology 2

From Middle English boueer, from Old English b?r, ?eb?r (“freeholder of the lowest class, peasant, farmer”) and Middle Dutch bouwer (“farmer, builder, peasant”); both from Proto-Germanic *b?raz (“dweller”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??w- (“to dwell”). Cognate with German Bauer (“peasant, builder”), Dutch boer, buur, and Albanian burrë (“man, husband”). See boor, neighbor.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. A peasant; a farmer.

Etymology 3

From German Bauer.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. Either of the two highest trumps in euchre.
   • 1870, Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James

     Yet the cards they were stocked / In a way that I grieve, / And my feelings were shocked / At the state of Nye's sleeve, / Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers, / And the same with intent to deceive.

Derived terms

• best bower
• left bower
• right bower

Etymology 4

From the bow of a ship +? -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.

Derived terms

• best bower
• small bower

Etymology 5

From bow (verb) +? -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. One who bows or bends.
2. A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.

Etymology 6

From bow (noun) +? -er.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.

Derived terms

• diddley bower

Etymology 7

From bough, compare brancher.

Noun

bower (plural bowers)

1. (obsolete, falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.

See also

• Bower Ashton

References

bower in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• bowre

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English owere, o?ere, awer, equivalent to owe +? -er.

Noun

ower (plural owers)

1. A person who owes something, especially money.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ower, a variant of Middle English over. Compare Scots ower (“over”), English o'er (“over”). More at over.

Preposition

ower

1. (Tyneside) over

   Get ower thor noo!

Adverb

ower (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) over

   She's ower canny hor, like

Adjective

ower (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) overly, too

   Thats ower much that!

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

Anagrams

• Rowe, WORE, owre, wore

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?v?/

Adverb

ower

1. Alternative form of awer

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

ower

1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 2

Determiner

ower

1. (chiefly early) Alternative form of youre

References

• “your, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.

Scots

Adverb

ower (not comparable)

1. (South Scots) over

   If ee gaun ower the hill ee'll sei eet.

   If he gone over the hill, he will see it.

Adjective

ower (not comparable)

1. (South Scots) too

   That's ower much for mei, like!

   That's too much for me, like!

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Alternative forms

• oer

Etymology

From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar.

Preposition

ower

1. over

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN