English-French translations for tower

• tour
  Nous ne sommes pas dans une tour d'ivoire. We do not live in an ivory tower.
  On pourrait également l'appeler une tour de guet, une tour de garde. It could also be called a look-out post or a watch-tower.
  Babel construira, sans aucun doute, sa tour. Babel will undoubtedly build its tower.
• la maison dieu

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