tower

Meaning

1. A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
2. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
3. A water tower.
4. A control tower.
5. Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
6. An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
7. (informal) Short for interlocking tower..
8. A strong refuge; a defence.
9. A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
10. (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
11. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
12. The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
13. A group of giraffes
14. Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
15. A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.

tower

rise

turret

spire

pagoda

soar

lookout

predominate

towboat

tug

tugboat

castle

rear

platform

terrace

columnar

columned

steeple

citadel

hulk

loom

column

pillar

keep

pylon

heighten

dominate

lift

stage

minar

belvedere

watch-tower

fly

sail

wing

extend above

fortification

stronghold

control tower

be eminent

cover

defense

obstruction

fort

fortress

towing

Ter

tower column

tower block

tower building

pole

poles and towers

minaret

tall

ascend

billow

climb

go up

protrude

transude

uplift

uprise

barge

flatboat

hoy

lighter

narrow boat

rook

mast

tower above

rise up

case

computer case

stand out

cupola

dome

dominant

prick

spring

raise

chamber

room

lighthouse

upper room

highwall

pinnacle

tall building

dagoba

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

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). Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh tŵr. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and turret.