shower, shower bath
(noun) washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle; “he took a shower after the game”
shower
(noun) a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you; “they installed a shower in the bathroom”
shower, cascade
(noun) a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; “a little shower of rose petals”; “a sudden cascade of sparks”
shower
(noun) a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person; “her friends organized a baby shower for her when she was expecting”
exhibitor, exhibitioner, shower
(noun) someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
shower, rain shower
(noun) a brief period of precipitation; “the game was interrupted by a brief shower”
shower
(verb) take a shower; wash one’s body in the shower; “You should shower after vigorous exercise”
shower
(verb) spray or sprinkle with; “The guests showered rice on the couple”
lavish, shower
(verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; “He was showered with praise”
shower, shower down
(verb) rain abundantly; “Meteors showered down over half of Australia”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shower (plural showers)
A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
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.
Synonym: shower bath
An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
Synonym: shower bath
A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
A bridal shower.
A baby shower.
(obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
(chiefly, Irish, UK, Australia, pejorative) A shower of shit.
(chiefly, Irish, euphemistic, pejorative, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
shower (third-person singular simple present showers, present participle showering, simple past and past participle showered)
(followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
To bathe using a shower.
To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
(intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.
• (bathe using a shower): have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)
shower (plural showers)
One who shows.
some object or activity that is shown in a contest
(slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.
Antonym: grower
• Howser, Whoser, howers, reshow, whores
Source: Wiktionary
Show"er, n.
1. One who shows or exhibits.
2. That which shows; a mirror. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Show"er, n. Etym: [OE. shour, schour, AS. se; akin to D. schoer, G. schauer, OHG. sc, Icel. sk, Sw. skur, Goth. sk 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. Shak. Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.
Show"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Showered; p. pr. & vb. n. Showering.]
1. To water with a shower; to Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. Milton.
2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in Shak. Cshowers down greatness on his friends. Addison.
Show"er, v. i.
Definition: To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 February 2025
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
