Definition of Tower

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Definition of Tower

Tower

A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

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.

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.

A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

High flight; elevation.

To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

To soar into.

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Tower Quotations

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Franz Kafka

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
Tyra Banks

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Dante Alighieri

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
Billie Joe Armstrong

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
John Cusack

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
Hernando Cortes

I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
Cher

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.
Earl Warren

Tower Translations

tower in Afrikaans is toring
tower in Dutch is toren
tower in Finnish is torni
tower in French is tour
tower in German is Turm
tower in Italian is torre
tower in Portuguese is torre
tower in Spanish is torre
tower in Swedish is torn

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