bowery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
  2. adjective satellite like a bower; leafy and shady
    • a bowery lane

WordNet

Bow"er*y adjective
Definitions
  1. Shading, like a bower; full of bowers.
    A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.
Bow"er*y noun
Etymology
D. bouwerij.
Wordforms
plural
plural Boweries
Definitions
  1. A farm or plantation with its buildings. U.S.Hist.
    The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.
Bow"er*y adjective
Definitions
  1. Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

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