Bedroom vs Bower - What's the difference?
bedroom | bower |
A room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
* Gascoigne
(literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
* 1599 ,
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=1 (ornithology) A large structure made of grass and bright objects, used by the bower bird during courtship displays.
(nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
One who bows or bends.
A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between bedroom and bower
is that bedroom is a room in a house where a bed is kept for sleeping while bower is a bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.As a verb bower is
to embower; to enclose.As a proper noun Bower is
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English
(wikipedia bedroom)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
- Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.
Synonyms
* sleeping quarters, sleeping padDerived terms
* bedroom communityAnagrams
* * 1000 English basic wordsbower
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- Give me my lute in bed now as I lie, / And lock the doors of mine unlucky bower .
- (Shenstone)
- say that thou overheard'st us,
- And bid her steal into the pleached bower ,
- Where honey-suckles, ripen'd by the sun,
- Forbid the sun to enter;
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Synonyms
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) boueer, from (etyl) .Etymology 3
From (etyl) Bauer.Derived terms
* best bower * left bower * right bowerEtymology 4
From the bow of a shipNoun
(en noun)- His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers / Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew.