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# bower

noun (a bower, bowers)

«bower» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A shady, pleasant place in a garden or wood, under trees or climbing plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#m1)
2. (poetic, old) A private room or bedroom, especially a lady's. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#m2)
3. The display made by a bowerbird. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#m3)

### In the lessons

In poems and old stories, lovers meet in a rose bower. In science, the male bowerbird of Australia and New Guinea builds a bower and decorates it with blue things to attract a female.

### Examples

- They rested in a bower of roses. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x1)
- The bowerbird decorated its bower with blue bottle tops. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x2)
- The princess sat in her bower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x3)
- Ivy made a green bower over the bench. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x4)
- The garden had a shady bower for reading. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x5)
- When completed, it was a sweet rural bower, roofed overhead with an arch of living boughs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x6)

### Note

Rhymes with «flower». Old-fashioned and poetic in most senses.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bower» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bower» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bower.html) on Mova free.