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towerlike

towerlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a tower.

Adjective

towerlike (comparative more towerlike, superlative most towerlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a tower.
    • A small group of warriors, some of them in the line of battle, with only head and feet showing above and below a line of tall, tower-like shields locked close together.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 38

Forms of towerlike

comparativemore towerlike
superlativemost towerlike
alternative formtower-like

Origin of towerlike

From tower + -like.

Questions about towerlike

What does towerlike mean?
Towerlike means resembling or characteristic of a tower.
What part of speech is towerlike?
Towerlike is an adjective.

Words near towerlike in the dictionary

  1. toweringly
  2. towerings
  3. towerless
  4. towerlet
  5. towerlets
  6. towerlike
  7. towerman
  8. towermen
  9. towers
  10. Towers of Babel
  11. towers of Hanoi

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