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Webster 1913 Edition

Shower

Show′er

,
Noun.
1.
One who shows or exhibits.
2.
That which shows; a mirror.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.

Show′er

,
Noun.
[OE.
shour
,
schour
, AS.
se[GREEK]r
; akin to D.
schoer
, G.
schauer
, OHG.
sc[GREEK]r
, Icel.
sk[GREEK]r
, Sw.
skur
, Goth.
sk[GREEK]ra windis
a storm of wind; of uncertain origin.]
1.
A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
In drought or else
showers
.
Chaucer.
Or wet the thirsty earth with falling
showers
.
Milton.
2.
That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
With
showers
of stones he drives them far away.
Pope.
3.
A copious supply bestowed.
[R.]
He and myself
Have travail’d in the great
shower
of your gifts.
Shakespeare
Shower bath
,
a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.

Show′er

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Showered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Showering
.]
1.
To water with a shower; to [GREEK][GREEK]t copiously with rain.
Lest it again dissolve and
shower
the earth.
Milton.
2.
To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in [GREEK]undance; to rain.
Shak.
C[GREEK]sar's favor,
That
showers
down greatness on his friends.
Addison.

Show′er

,
Verb.
I.
To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Shower

SHOWER

,
Noun.
One who shows or exhibits.

Definition 2024

shower

shower

English

Person showering.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: shou'ər, IPA(key): /ˈʃaʊ.ə(ɹ)/
  • (US) enPR: shou'ər, IPA(key): /ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
  • Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)

Noun

shower ‎(plural showers)

  1. A brief fall of precipitation.
    Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.‎
  2. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
  3. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
    I′m going to have a shower.‎ (UK, Australia)
    I′m going to take a shower.‎ (especially US)
  4. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
    a shower of sparks;  a meteor shower;  a Gatorade shower‎
  5. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
    Would male strippers be appropriate for the divorce shower?‎
    Her church group has planned an adoption shower.‎
    1. A bridal shower.
      The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.‎
    2. A baby shower.
      Her friends are throwing her a shower after her mom leaves.‎
  6. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xiiij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX:
      With this I maye be sure to come sauf / and goo sauf / and that the quene shal haue her lyberte as she had before / and neuer for no thynge that hath ben surmysed afore this tyme / she neuer fro this day stande in no peryll / for els sayd sir launcelot I dare auenture me to kepe her from an harder shoure than euer I kepte her
  7. (chiefly Ireland, Britain, Australia, pejorative) A shower of ****.
    • 1956, Private's Progress (motion picture):
      You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower‎
  8. (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, pejorative, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
    • 1991, Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland, page 208 (University of Chicago Press; ISBN 9780226240701, 9780226240718)
      It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.
Synonyms
  • (device for bathing): shower bath
  • (instance of use): shower bath
See also
Translations

Verb

shower ‎(third-person singular simple present showers, present participle showering, simple past and past participle showered)

  1. (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
  2. To bathe using a shower.
  3. to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
    • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
      The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.
Translations
Synonyms
  • (bathe using a shower): have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈʃəʊ.ə(ɹ)/

Noun

shower ‎(plural showers)

  1. One who shows.
  2. (slang) A man whose **** appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.
Antonyms
  • (man whose **** appears roughly full size both flaccid and erect): grower
Translations
Related terms

Anagrams

Swedish

Noun

shower

  1. indefinite plural of show

Etymology

From Middle English shour, from Old English scūr, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- ‎(“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer.

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