Tower

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Tower

Tower : கோபுரம்

Tower : கோபுரம்

Tower definition

Noun.

  1. A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
  5. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
  6. High flight; elevation.

Intransitive verb. To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

Transitive verb. To soar into.