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# bower

«bower» in Mova's school dictionary: **A shady, pleasant place in a garden or wood, under trees…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bower, bowers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A shady, pleasant place in a garden or wood, under trees or climbing plants. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#m2)

3) The display made by a bowerbird. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x1)
- The bowerbird decorated its bower with blue bottle tops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x2)
- The princess sat in her bower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x3)
- Ivy made a green bower over the bench. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x4)
- The garden had a shady bower for reading. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/#x6)

### note

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bower» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bower/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.