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Meaning Of Tower
n.
A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually
higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that
proportion.
n.
A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for
purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the
curtain wall or higher.
n.
A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special
purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its
width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.
n.
A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
n.
A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about
the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high
headdress.
n.
High flight; elevation.
v. i.
To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very
high; hence, to soar.