bower
/baʊ.ər/
- n.
- 凉亭，树阴处
中文释义来自 ECDICT
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词源链
- 英语English
bower
词源说明
From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).
释义
名词noun
- 1A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- 2literaryA dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- 3A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- 4(ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship
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构词拆解
- -er
- (added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun. · (added to verbs, informal) A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
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构词拆解
- -er
- (added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun. · (added to verbs, informal) A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.
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构词拆解
- -er
- (added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun. · (added to verbs, informal) A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.