Usually means: Structure reaching high above ground.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tower: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tower: Merriam-Webster
  3. tower, tower, the Tower: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tower: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tower: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tower: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tower, tower: Wordnik
  8. tower: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tower, tower: Wiktionary
  10. tower: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tower: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tower: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tower: Dictionary.com
  14. tower: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tower: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Tower (Dubai), The Tower (Once Upon a Time), The Tower (Tarot card), The Tower (The Walking Dead), The Tower (book), The Tower (disambiguation), The Tower (novel), The Tower (poem), The Tower (poetry collection), The Tower, Tower (album), Tower (disambiguation), Tower (film), Tower (surname), Tower (ward), Tower: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tower: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tower: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tower: Rhymezone
  20. tower: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tower: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tower: FreeDictionary.org
  23. The Tower, tower: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. tower: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. tower: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. tower-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Tower: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tower: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tower: CCI Computer
  2. The Tower, tower: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tower: Idioms
  4. TOWER: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tower: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tower, tower, tower: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tower: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Bridge Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tower: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A very tall iron-framed structure, usually painted red and white, on which microwave, radio, satellite, or other communication antennas are installed; mast.
noun:  A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top, used as a lookout for spotting fires, plane crashes, fugitives, etc.
noun:  A water tower.
noun:  A control tower.
noun:  Any very tall building or structure; skyscraper.
noun:  (figuratively) An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.
noun:  (figurative) A strong refuge; a defence.
noun:  (historical) A tall fashionable headdress worn in the time of King William III and Queen Anne.
noun:  (obsolete) High flight; elevation.
noun:  The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.
noun:  (cartomancy) The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.
noun:  (collective) A group of giraffes
noun:  (business) Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.
noun:  (glassblowing) A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.
verb:  (intransitive) To be very tall.
verb:  (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.
noun:  One who tows.
noun:  (UK, with 'the') The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.
noun:  (countable) A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers
noun:  (attributive, from its later association with the English mint at the Tower of London) Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.
noun:  (informal) Short for interlocking tower.. [(rail transport, US) A building or room that houses controls for switches.]

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