Bower Explained

Bower may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Catherine, or The Bower, an unfinished Jane Austen novel
• A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games:
  • The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the game of Euchre
  • The Best and Under Bower in the game of Bester Bauer
  • The Right and Left Bower in the game of Réunion
• Bower Studios, a design studio based in NYC.

Places

• Bower, South Australia, a town
• Bower, Highland, Scotland, a village and civil parish
• Bower, Nebraska, a ghost town in the United States
• Bower, West Virginia, a ghost town in the United States
• Havering-atte-Bower, a village within the London Borough of Havering
• Mount Bower, Victoria Land, Antarctica

People

• Bower (surname)
• Bower Featherstone, Canadian civil servant convicted of espionage in 1966
• E. Bower Carty (1916–2001), Canadian public servant and Chairman of the World Scout Committee
• Roger Squires (1932–2023), British retired crossword compiler/setter, one of whose pseudonyms was Bower

Other uses

• The Bower, a building in Jefferson County, West Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Bower Award
• 1639 Bower, an asteroid
• Bower railway station, Highland, Scotland
• A sculpture built by a bowerbird to attract a mate
• A dwelling or lean-to shelter, also known as a pergola
• An anchor carried at the bow of a ship
• A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle – cf. boudoir

See also

• Pandorea jasminoides, a vine species also known as the bower of beauty, bower vine or bower plant
• Bower House, a grade I listed Palladian mansion in Havering-atte-Bower, England
• Bower Fold, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England, the home ground of Stalybridge Celtic football club
• Bower Place, a shopping centre in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
• Bower Manuscript, a Sanskrit manuscript
• Bauer (disambiguation)
• Bowers (disambiguation)
• Bowery (disambiguation)