📖 shower

noun

1. washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle“he took a shower after the game”
2. a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you“they installed a shower in the bathroom”
3. a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower“a little shower of rose petals”
4. 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”

See also: shower bathcascade

🌦️ Weather & Sky

← tempest · all Weather & Sky words · storm →

Where these words come from

Definitions load first from tukuk.org’s own word bank — about 207,000 English word-sense rows built weekly on free GitHub runners from Princeton WordNet (redistributed under its free-use notice with attribution) and frequency-ranked by wordfreq (CC-BY-SA 4.0), the same local index that answers the dictionary tool instantly. Anything the bank does not hold falls back to the free Free Dictionary API, cached a day like every other lookup.