Definition of tower

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Tower (n.) 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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Steeplechasing :: Steeple (n.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire..
Looplight :: Looplight (n.) A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
Eminent :: Eminent (a.) High; lofty; towering; prominent.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea..
Turreted :: Turreted (a.) Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp..
Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..
Towered :: towered (imp. & p. p.) of Towe.
Tower :: Tower (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress..
Garret :: Garret (n.) A turret; a watchtower.
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure..
Pagoda :: Pagoda (n.) A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship..
Pane :: Pane (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes..
Barbacan :: Barbacan (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own..
Overtop :: Overtop (v. t.) To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.
Castle :: Castle (n.) A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back..
Overtower :: Overtower (v. t.) To tower over or above.
Broach :: Broach (n.) A spire rising from a tower.
Babel :: Babel (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place..
Rondel :: Rondel (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
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