Word Meaning

tower definition and meaning

n. A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
n. 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.
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.
n. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
n. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
n. High flight; elevation.
v. i. To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
v. t. To soar into.

Crossword clues for tower

- Get up
- High building
- High building structure
- Lofty building
- Lofty structure
- slender turrets or spiry structure
- Tall building
- Turret