Meaning

15 senses
  1. A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

    an observation tower, an isolated watch tower, a church tower, conning tower

  2. A tall, narrow structure (significantly taller than it is wide, either standing alone or forming part of a larger structure.

    A very tall open-framed structure on which communications devices are installed.

    signal tower, radio tower, cell tower

  3. A similarly framed structure with a platform or enclosed area on top.

    observation tower, watch tower

  4. A control tower.

  5. A skyscraper.

    The Sears Tower

  6. (figuratively)An item of various kinds, such as a computer case, that is higher than it is wide.

    Turm

    ба́шняbášnja

  7. (figuratively)A strong refuge; a defence.

  8. Each of a set of information technology concerns within a business, which are treated separately so that they can be handled by different providers.

  9. The sixteenth named (trump or Major Arcana) card in many Tarot decks, usually deemed an ill omen.

    der Turm

  10. The nineteenth Lenormand card, representing structure, bureaucracy, stability and loneliness.

  11. (collective)A group of giraffes.

  12. A metal stand used as a pivot to support a punty at a furnace.

Examples

301 sentences
  1. Lightning struck the tower.

    Блискавка вдарила у башту.

    ruМолния ударила в башню.

    deDer Blitz schlug in den Turm ein.

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  2. Lightning hit that tower.

    Блискавка влучила в цю башту.

    ruМолния ударила в ту башню.

    deDer Blitz ist in diesem Turm eingeschlagen.

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  3. How high is that tower?

    Якої висоти ця вежа?

    ruКакой высоты та башня?

    deWie hoch ist dieser Turm?

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  4. That's a tower.

    Це вежа.

    ruЭто башня.

    deDas ist ein Turm.

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  5. How tall is that tower?

    Якої висоти ця вежа?

    ruКакой высоты та башня?

    deWie hoch ist dieser Turm?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
tall, narrow structure:
Русский
By meaning 1
tall, narrow structure:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
tall, narrow structure:
(cartomancy) The Tower (Tarot card):

Origin

From Middle English tour, tur, tor, from Old English tūr, tor, torr ("tower; rock"; > Engl

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".

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