bower

About 1.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
2. noun A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
3. noun A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
4. noun A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
5. verb To embower; to enclose.
6. verb To lodge.
7. noun A peasant; a farmer.
8. noun Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).

Similar words

arbour embower arbor pergola nott havering atte gazebo summerhouse alcove

Often followed by

of and in was is to anchor et for

Word family

bowered bowering bowers