bowery
/ˈbaʊəɹi/
bowery noun: structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
Noun (1)
bowery (plural boweries)
- Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
- The group performed in the old bowery, an open-air building with a roof of branches laid over vertical poles, the forerunner of the first tabernacle.2005, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, “Evolving Roles and Diverse Expressions”, in Women in Utah History: Paradigm Or Paradox, University Press of Colorado
- This year’s Easter egg hunt will be at the community bowery on Saturday, April 15.2017, Lacie Kotter, “Howell Hotline - Awaiting a welcome sign,”, in The Herald Journal
Adjective
bowery (comparative bowerier or more bowery, superlative boweriest or most bowery)
Noun (2)
bowery (plural boweries)
- In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
- His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.1809, Washington Irving, chapter 65, in Knickerbocker's History of New York
- The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations[…]1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bowery
Bowery (plural Bowerys)
- A surname from Middle English.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bowery
the Bowery
- A street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low socioeconomic class.
- We were seen quarrelling this afternoon in a saloon over on the Bowery.1919, Frank L. Packard, chapter 3, in The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale
- […] sewer people, derelicts, bag ladies, undergrounders, and Bowery bums. Whatever the cause of their illness, as in Scanners, homeless people are victims but, more importantly, a threat to be eliminated.2017, Stephen Pimpare, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens, page 227
bowery meaning in Tamil
bowery in Tamil
- கொடிப்பந்தல்
Forms of bowery
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | boweries |
| alternative form | bouwerie |
| alternative form | bouwery |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | bowerier |
| comparative | more bowery |
| superlative | boweriest |
| superlative | most bowery |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Bowerys |
| alternative form | Bowry |
Origin of bowery
From bower + -y.
From bower + -y, calque of Dutch bouwerij.
Unexplained. Perhaps a topographic surname for someone who lived in a small cottage, from Middle English bour (“chamber, cottage”) or, alternatively, an occupational surname for someone who worked there.
Words formed from bowery
Questions about bowery
- What does bowery mean?
- Bowery means structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
- What is bowery in Tamil?
- Bowery in Tamil is கொடிப்பந்தல். See Bowery meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is bowery?
- Bowery can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce bowery?
- Bowery is pronounced /ˈbaʊəɹi/.
- What is the plural of bowery?
- The plural of bowery is boweries.
Words near bowery in the dictionary
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