English-Dutch translations for tower

• toren
  We zitten niet in een ivoren toren. We do not live in an ivory tower.
  Babel zal zonder twijfel zijn toren bouwen. Babel will undoubtedly build its tower.
  De toren was echter een idee van krankzinnigen. The Tower was an idea of lunatics, however.
• uittorenen

Definition of tower

• The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment
• Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins

Examples

• Traitors should be sent to the Tower!

Related words

• towering
• watchtower
• towered
• belltower
• towerlike
• overtower
• stower
• towerman
• Towersey