tower

tower is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
5. noun. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
6. noun. High flight; elevation.
7. intransitive verb. To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
8. transitive verb. To soar into.
9. noun. a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building
10. noun. a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

    Synonyms: towboat, tug, tugboat

11. noun. anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower

    "the test tube held a column of white powder"

    "a tower of dust rose above the horizon"

    Synonyms: column, pillar

12. verb. appear very large or occupy a commanding position

    "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"

    "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall"

    Synonyms: hulk, loom, predominate

Synonyms

towboat, tug, tugboat, column, pillar, hulk, loom, predominate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tower:

rowet, rowte, wrote

Common word forms

towers, towered, towering, towerless

Words from these letters

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