tower – English noun declension

English noun forms of tower

Noun: tower
Singulartower
Pluraltowers

Sample Sentences

  • an observation tower, an isolated watch tower, a church tower, conning tower
  • The valley is closed in at the lower end by the village, the church tower and a few roofs being visible through the trees; […] [1878, Harold Lewis, The Church Rambler: A Series of Articles on the Churches..., page 440:]
  • […] an isolated watch-tower still stands above the highway as it passes around the lowest ridge extending from the castle. Called Burj al-Sabi ('Tower of the Youth'), it protected the access to the castle's port […] [2009, Ross Burns, The Monuments of Syria: A Guide, page 235:]
  • The clock tower above your apartment tolls, ringing twice. [...People] examine the bells with tuning fork and soundhorn, and scurry about with clipboard and blueprint, [but] they do not appear to be in the process of repairing or maintaining the bell-tower at all. [2011, Margaret Killjoy, What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower:]
  • signal tower, radio tower, cell tower
  • observation tower, watch tower
  • The Sears Tower
  • He'd taken her to see […] The Towering Inferno […] She imagined the screen itself must be hot as the burning San Francisco tower. […] She expected the screen to go up in a sheath of flame as the Glass Tower had, expected sparks to leap from the aluminum into the surrounding hayfields, […] [2022 January 25, Morgan Thomas, Manywhere: Stories, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:]
  • Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 61:3:]
  • A group of giraffes is called a tower. [2019 June 6, “A gaggle, a confusion and a conspiracy - bizarre animal collective group names”, in BBC:]
  • Suppliers compete separately for the towers and service integrator and management contract, which assists the government in the integration and operation of its services. [2013, Great Britain, The Impact of Government's ICT Savings Initiatives, National Audit Office, page 28:]
  • Service towers are significant IT functional areas, such as infrastructure, applications, security, etc., each possibly managed by a different service provider. The service integrator role is crucial for coordinating and integrating these service towers. [2023, Cybellium Ltd, Mastering ISO-IEC 20000-1, page 108:]
  • Observe a tower of giraffes feeding on acacia leaves and oxpeckers combing giraffes' coats for parasites [2026 July 12, “Observe a tower of giraffes feeding on acacia leaves and oxpeckers combing giraffes' coats for parasites”, in Britannica, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2026:]
  • A tower of giraffes at the Houston Zoo. [2026 April 30, Lakisha Lemons, “A behind the scenes look at the new things coming to the Houston Zoo”, in Spectrum Local News, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2026:]
  • Towers of giraffes will walk nine miles or more every day to find all the food they need to eat. [2019, Chelsea Clinton, Don't Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe, Penguin Young Readers Group:]
  • Lay trains of amorous intrigues / In towers, and curls, and periwigs. [1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:]
  • Nigh in her sight
  • The Bird of Jove, stoopt from his aerie tour,
  • Two Birds of gayest plume before him drove. [1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English tūr, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > English tor) and Old French tour, toer, tor; both from Latin turris (“a tower”), Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) (Hesychius), τύρσις (túrsis). Displaced native Middle English stepel for the general sense of "tower".
2. Compare Scots tour, towr, towre (“tower”), West Frisian toer (“tower”), Dutch toren (“tower”), German Turm (“tower”), Danish tårn (“tower”), Swedish torn (“tower”), Icelandic turn (“tower”), Welsh tŵr.
3. Doublet of tor, tourelle, and turret. See: Middle English Nouns 'tour', Latin Nouns 'turris', Dutch Nouns 'toren', German Nouns 'Turm', Danish Nouns 'tårn', Swedish Nouns 'torn', Icelandic Nouns 'turn'.

Verbs referencing "tower"

Russian Nouns тура, Russian Nouns тюрьма.