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English
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Etymology 1
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 .
Pronunciation
Noun
tower (plural towers )
A nineteenth century water tower
A very tall iron -framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave , radio , satellite , or other communication antennas are installed; mast .
A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives , etc.
A water tower .
A control tower .
Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper .
( figuratively ) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
( informal ) Short for interlocking tower ..
( figurative ) A strong refuge; a defence.
( historical ) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
1662 , [Samuel Butler ], “ ”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman , , published 1678 ; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller , editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars , Cambridge: University Press , 1905 , →OCLC :Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers , and curls, and periwigs.
( obsolete ) High flight; elevation.
1667 , John Milton , “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons ], , →OCLC ; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873 , →OCLC :Nigh in her sight The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour , Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove.
The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
( cartomancy ) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
( collective ) A group of giraffes
( business ) Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business , which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers .
2013 , Great Britain, The Impact of Government's ICT Savings Initiatives , National Audit Office, page 28 :Suppliers compete separately for the towers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services.
2023 , Cybellium Ltd, Mastering ISO-IEC 20000-1 (page 108)
Service towers are significant IT functional areas, such as infrastructure, applications, security, etc., each possibly managed by a different service provider. The service integrator role is crucial for coordinating and integrating these service towers .
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Descendants
→ German: Tower
→ Hindi: टावर ( ṭāvar )
→ Japanese: タワー ( tawā )
→ Korean: 타워 ( tawo )
→ Northern Kurdish: tawer
→ Punjabi: ਟਾਵਰ ( ṭāvar )
Translations
structure
Adyghe: щэчанэ ( śɛčanɛ )
Afrikaans: toring
Albanian: kullë (sq) f
Amharic: ግንብ ( gənb )
Arabic: بُرْج m ( burj )
Egyptian Arabic: برج m ( burg )
Hijazi Arabic: بُرْج m ( burj )
Iraqi Arabic: برج ( burij )
Aragonese: torraza f , torre f
Armenian: աշտարակ (hy) ( aštarak )
Assamese: দুর্গ , মিনাৰ ( minar )
Asturian: torre (ast) f
Avar: си ( si )
Azerbaijani: qala (az) , qüllə (az) , bürc , vışka
Bashkir: манара ( manara ) , башня ( başnya )
Basque: dorre
Belarusian: ве́жа f ( vjéža ) , вы́шка f ( výška ) , це́рам m ( cjéram )
Bengali: মিনার (bn) ( minar ) , বুরুজ (bn) ( buruj )
Breton: tour (br) m
Bulgarian: ку́ла (bg) f ( kúla )
Burmese: ရဲတိုက် (my) ( rai:tuik )
Catalan: torre (ca) f
Chechen: бӏов ( bˀov )
Cherokee: ᎡᏆ ( equa )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 塔 ( taap3 )
Dungan: та ( ta )
Eastern Min: 塔 ( ták )
Hakka: 塔 ( thap )
Hokkien: 塔 (zh-min-nan) ( thap )
Mandarin: 塔樓 / 塔楼 (zh) ( tǎlóu ) , 塔 (zh) ( tǎ ) , 樓閣 / 楼阁 (zh) ( lóugé ) , 樓臺 / 楼台 (zh) ( lóutái )
Northern Min: 塔 ( tă )
Wu: 塔 ( 7 thaq)
Classical Syriac: ܡܓܕܠܐ m ( maḡdlā )
Czech: věž (cs) f
Danish: tårn (da) n
Dutch: toren (nl) m
Erzya: кевмар ( kevmar ) , палманькудо ( palmańkudo ) , сярдак ( śardak )
Esperanto: turo
Estonian: torn (et)
Faroese: torn n
Finnish: torni (fi)
French: tour (fr) f
Middle French: tour f
Old French: tor f
Galician: torre (gl) f , crochel m , caramanchel m
Georgian: კოშკი ( ḳošḳi ) , გოდოლი (ka) ( godoli )
German: Turm (de) m
Alemannic German: Durm m
Bavarian: Tuam m
Greek: πύργος (el) m ( pýrgos )
Ancient: πύργος m ( púrgos )
Gujarati: બુરજ ( buraj )
Hebrew: מִגְדָּל (he) m ( migdál )
Hindi: टावर (hi) m ( ṭāvar ) , लाट (hi) m ( lāṭ ) , अटारी (hi) f ( aṭārī ) , बुर्ज (hi) m ( burj )
Hungarian: torony (hu)
Icelandic: turn (is) m
Ido: turmo (io)
Igbo: ulọ aja , ugẹle
Ilocano: torre
Indonesian: menara (id)
Irish: túr m
Italian: torre (it) f
Japanese: 塔 (ja) ( とう, tō ) , タワー (ja) ( tawā )
Javanese: menara (jv)
Kalmyk: цамхаг ( tsamxag )
Kannada: ಮೇರುವೆ (kn) ( mēruve )
Kazakh: мұнара ( mūnara )
Khmer: ប៉ម (km) ( pɑɑm ) , ប្រាង្គ (km) ( praang )
Korean: 탑(塔) (ko) ( tap ) , 타워 (ko) ( tawo )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: birc (ku)
Kyrgyz: мунара (ky) ( munara ) , бурана (ky) ( burana )
Lao: ຫໍ ( hǭ ) , ຫໍຄອຢ ( hǭ khǭy )
Latin: turris (la) f
Latvian: tornis m
Limburgish: toeare m
Lithuanian: bokštas m
Lombard: tór f
Low German:
German Low German: Toorn m
Luxembourgish: Tuerm (lb) m
Macedonian: кула f ( kula )
Malagasy: tilikambo (mg)
Malay: menara (ms)
Malayalam: ഗോപുരം (ml) ( gōpuraṁ )
Maltese: borġ m , torri m
Manchu: please add this translation if you can
Maori: pourewa , pūhara , pūwhara
Marathi: मनोरा m ( manorā )
Mari:
Eastern Mari: башне ( bašńe )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: цамхаг (mn) ( camxag )
Moore: gãosgo
Nahuatl: tlapilkoyan
Nepali: स्तम्भ ( stambha ) , टावर ( ṭāwar )
Northern Sami: toardna
Norwegian Bokmål: tårn (no) n
Occitan: torre (oc) f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: сꙑнъ m ( synŭ ) , стлъпъ m ( stlŭpŭ ) , трѣмъ m ( trěmŭ )
Glagolitic: ⱄⱏⰺⱀⱏ m ( synŭ ) , ⱄⱅⰾⱏⱂⱏ m ( stlŭpŭ ) , ⱅⱃⱑⰿⱏ m ( trěmŭ )
Old East Slavic: вѣжа f ( věža ) , нꙑръ m ( nyrŭ )
Old English: stīepel m
Old Occitan: torre
Old Portuguese: torre
Ossetian: мӕсыг ( mæsyg ) , гӕнах ( gænax )
Ottoman Turkish: قله ( kulle ) , برج ( burc )
Pashto: برج (ps) m ( borǰ )
Persian: برج (fa) ( borj )
Polish: wieża (pl) f , baszta (pl) f ( fortified ) , stołp (pl) ( bergfried )
Portuguese: torre (pt) f
Punjabi: ਟਾਵਰ m ( ṭāvar ) , ਬੁਰਜ m ( burj )
Quechua: turri
Romanian: turn (ro) n
Romansch: tur m
Russian: ба́шня (ru) f ( bášnja ) , вы́шка (ru) f ( výška ) , ве́жа (ru) f ( véža ) ( archaic ) , те́рем (ru) m ( térem )
Samoan: olo
Samogitian: buokšts m
Scots: tour
Scottish Gaelic: tùr m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: то́рањ m
Roman: tóranj (sh) m
Sicilian: turri f
Sinhalese: කුළුණ ( kuḷuṇa )
Situ: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: veža (sk) f
Slovene: stolp (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: torm m
Upper Sorbian: bašta f , wěža f
Spanish: torre (es) f
Swahili: mnara class 1 /2
Swedish: torn (sv)
Tagalog: tore
Tajik: бурҷ (tg) ( burj ) , манора ( manora )
Tamil: கோபுரம் (ta) ( kōpuram )
Tatar: манара (tt) ( manara ) , каланча (tt) ( qalança )
Telugu: బురుజు (te) ( buruju ) , గోపురము (te) ( gōpuramu )
Thai: หอ (th) ( hɔ̌ɔ ) , หอคอย (th) ( hɔ̌ɔ-kɔɔi )
Tibetan: ཁང་ཀྲོང ( khang krong ) , ཁང་པ་མཐོ་པོ་ཀྲོང་ཀྲོང ( khang pa mtho po krong krong )
Tigrinya: ጸብለለ ( ṣäblälä ) , ግምቢ ( gəmbi )
Turkish: kule (tr)
Turkmen: minara , wyşka
Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎂𐎄𐎍 ( mgdl )
Ukrainian: ба́шта (uk) f ( bášta ) , ве́жа (uk) f ( véža ) , ви́шка (uk) f ( výška ) , те́рем m ( térem )
Urdu: ٹاور m ( ṭāvar ) , برج m ( burj ) , مینار m ( mīnār )
Uyghur: مۇنار ( munar )
Uzbek: minora (uz) , burj (uz) , bashnya (uz) , vishka (uz)
Vietnamese: tháp (vi)
Walloon: tour (wa) f
Welsh: tŵr (cy) m
West Frisian: toer c
Western Panjabi: برج m ( burj ) , مینار
Yiddish: טורעם m ( turem )
Zhuang: dap
(figuratively ) any item that is higher than it is wide
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Etymology 2
From Middle English touren , torren , torrien , from Old English *torrian , from the noun (see above).
Verb
tower (third-person singular simple present towers , present participle towering , simple past and past participle towered )
( intransitive ) To be very tall.
The office block towered into the sky.
( intransitive ) To be high or lofty; to soar .
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare , “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
1829 , Edgar Allan Poe , “Tamerlane ”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems :When Hope, the eagle that tower’d , could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.
1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine , page 14 :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.
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated , page 752 :To the left towers the Jungfrau, with the train heading directly towards it.
( obsolete , transitive ) To soar into.
1667 , John Milton , “(please specify the book number) ”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons ], , →OCLC ; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873 , →OCLC :Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky
Derived terms
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Etymology 3
From tow + -er .
Pronunciation
Noun
tower (plural towers )
One who tows .
1933 , Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar :But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window [ …]
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Afrikaans
Verb
tower (present tower , present participle towerende , past participle getower )
Alternative form of toor