TOWER


Meaning of TOWER in English

vt to soar into.

2. tower ·noun high flight; elevation.

3. tower ·noun a citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

4. tower ·vi to rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

5. tower ·noun a headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

6. tower ·noun a mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

7. tower ·noun a projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.

8. tower ·noun a structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.

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