Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shower

/ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English

Syllables
show-er
IPA
/ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.

noun

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.

noun

An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

noun

A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.

noun

A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.

noun

A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.

noun

A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.

noun

A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English schour (“shower”), from Old English sċūr (“shower”), from Proto-West Germanic *skūru (“shower”), from Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“storm, short shower”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north, north wind, cold wind, rain shower”). Cognates Cognate with Dutch schoer (“downpour, heavy rainshower”), German Schauer (“shower”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skur (“shower”), Faroese skúrur (“shower”), Icelandic skúr (“shower”), Norn skur (“squall”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌰 (skūra, “storm”), Italian coro (“northwestern wind”), Spanish cauro (“northwestern wind”), Belarusian се́вер (sjévjer), сі́вер (sívjer), Bulgarian and Russian се́вер (séver, “north”), Czech and Slovak sever (“north”), Macedonian север (sever, “north”), Serbo-Croatian sȅvēr, sjȅvēr (“north”), Slovene sẹ́ver (“north”), Ukrainian сі́вер (síver, “cold, cold, bitter wind”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: schour, sċūr, *skūru, *skūrō, *(s)ḱēwer-, schewere
  • Suffix: show

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/
  • British English: /ˈʃaʊ.ə(ɹ)/

Usage

Inflected Forms

showers (plural) showers (present, singular) showering (participle, present) showered (participle, past) showered (past) show-er (alternative, nonstandard) shewer (alternative, obsolete)

Derived Forms

midshower nonshower outshower overshower postshower rainshower shag shath showerable showerbath showerer showerful

Phrases

air shower aluminium shower aluminum shower April shower Auger shower baby shower bidet shower Bogan shower

Synonyms

shower bath have a shower take a shower cascade exhibitor exhibitioner rain shower lavish

Antonyms

grower

Rhymes With

our power hour tower flower flour sour empower bauer superpower devour bower

Questions

How do you pronounce shower?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃaʊ.ɚ/.
What does shower mean?
A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade); burst of hefty precipitation.
Where does shower come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce shower

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