Definition of tower

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Tower (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense..

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Babel :: Babel (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place..
Phare :: Phare (n.) A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
Eminent :: Eminent (a.) High; lofty; towering; prominent.
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..
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..
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns..
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..
Peel :: Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep..
Broach :: Broach (n.) A spire rising from a tower.
Tour :: Tour (n.) A tower.
Watchtower :: Watchtower (n.) A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like..
Tor :: Tor (n.) A tower; a turret.
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..
Daw :: Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw..
Towering :: towering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Towe.
Pylon :: Pylon (n.) An Egyptian gateway to a large building (with or without flanking towers).
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..
Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
Giver :: Giver (n.) One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
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