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BOWER
Boy/Male
Tamil
A bower
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English
English : variant of Bowerman.
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English
English : occupational name for a house servant who attended his master in his private quarters (see Bower 2).Americanized spelling of German Bauermann, a variant of Bauer.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke). Reaney suggests a further derivation from Old English būr ‘bower’ + hūs ‘house’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who dwelt in a small cottage, from an unattested Old English word būring, a derivative of būr ‘bower’, ‘cottage’ (see Bower).
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English
English : of uncertain origin. Reaney explains this as a nickname for a person who is difficult to shake off, from Middle English bur(r) ‘bur’ (a seedhead that sticks to clothing). Burre occurs as a surname or byname as early as 1185, but the vocabulary word is not recorded in OED until the 14th century. Another possibility is derivation from Old English būr ‘small dwelling or building’ (modern English bower), but there are phonological difficulties here too.German : perhaps a variant spelling of Bur, or a topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound’, ‘hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer.The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother’s side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father’s from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England with John Winthrop to MA in 1630.
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Dutch and North German
Dutch and North German : variant of Bormann.English : variant of Bowerman.
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English
English : English habitational name from any of the minor places in Wiltshire, Warwickshire, and other counties called (The) Folly, usually from Middle English folie in the sense ‘folly’, ‘foolish enterprise’, but otherwise from Old French feuillie ‘leafy bower or shelter’, later ‘clump of trees’. In some cases, the name may be topographic.English : nickname for an eccentric or foolish person, from Old French folie ‘foolishness’.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Bower; Birds Nest; Garden
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Scottish
Scottish : occupational name for a bow maker, Older Scots bowar, equivalent to English Bowyer.English and Scottish : from Middle English bur, bour ‘bower’, ‘cottage’, ‘inner room’ (Old English būr), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in a small cottage, an occupational name for a house servant who attended his master in his private quarters (see Bowerman), or a habitational name from any of various places, for example in Essex, named Bower or Bowers from this word.
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English
English : unexplained.
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu
Bower; Birds Nest; Garden
Boy/Male
Hindu
A bower
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
A Bower
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English
English : variant of Bower.
BOWER
BOWER
Female
Welsh
Welsh form of Greek Helénē, possibly ELEN means "torch."
Girl/Female
Spanish
Honor.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English, French, German
From the High Tower; Variant of Marlene; Derived from Madeline; Variant of Madeline Woman from Magdala
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English
English : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Muslim
River Ganga
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Beautiful Graceful, Lovely
Boy/Male
Tamil
Thiru Murugan | திர௠மà¯à®°à¯à®•ந
Wise, Knowledgeable, Attained realization
Boy/Male
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu
Name of a Devoted Pupil
Girl/Female
Slavic
Hope.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Brightness
BOWER
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BOWER
n.
That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground.
n.
The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.
n.
One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
n.
A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
n.
Same as Bower.
v. i.
To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower of wreathing trees.
a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Ranunculaceae), of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.
n.
See Rest bower, under 2d Bower.
v. i.
To lodge.
n.
A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
n.
Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
n.
A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
a.
Full of roses; rosy; as, roseate bowers.
n.
A farm or plantation with its buildings.
a.
Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
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Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.
v. t.
To embower; to inclose.
pl.
of Bowery