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say it: BOW-ur
bower is a noun and verb meaning "a framework that supports climbing plants". It is pronounced /ˈbaʊɚ/ — BOW-ur. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a framework that supports climbing plants
“the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bower come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.