Shower

Definition: Shower

Shower

Noun

1. A plumbing fixture that sprays water over you; "they installed a shower in the bathroom".

2. Washing yourself in a shower; you stand upright under water sprayed from a nozzle; "he took a shower after the game".

3. A brief period of precipitation; "the game was interrupted by a brief shower".

4. A sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals".

5. Someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see.

6. 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".

Verb

1. Expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns: "He was showered with praise".

2. Spray or sprinkle with; "The guests showered rice on the couple".

3. Take a shower; wash one's body in the shower; "You should shower after vigorous exercise".

4. Rain abundantly; "Meteors showered down over half of Australia.".

5. Provide abundantly with; "He showered her with presents".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shower" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Dream Interpretation

Geography

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Shower

Assemblage

Volley, shower, storm, cloud.

Giving

Furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with, indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon.

Liberality

Verb: be liberal;Adjective: spend freely, bleed freely; shower down upon; open one's purse strings; (disburse); spare no expense, give carte blanche.

River

Rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping. Verb: falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.

Pour; pour out. (discharge); shower down, irrigate, drench. (wet); spill, splash.

Sufficiency

Abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour in; swarm; bristle with; superabound.

Crosswords: Shower

Nothing wrong with him a shower wouldn't cure (Die Hard: With a Vengeance; writing credit: Jonathan Hensleigh)

I'm going to go home grab a shower and a shave, give the wife a little pickle tickle, and be on my way. (A League of their Own ; writing credit: Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel)

Astro! If I wanted a bath I'd take a shower! (The Jetsons; writing credit: Aarne Tarkas)

He was just in my shower. He threatened my life (Phantom of the Paradise; writing credit: Brian De Palma)

I'm being stalked by psycho killers and I hide in the shower! (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

I'LL TAKE A SHOWER, I WILL SCOUR (Never Ever; performing artist: All Saints)

Jump in the shower (9 To 5; performing artist: Dolly Parton)

Cannons a blazing shower these moonlit skies (This Time Around; performing artist: Hanson)

From +Phat Farm+ to +Iceberg Slim+ in one shower (E.I.; performing artist: Nelly)

LET'S SPEND AN HPUR IN THE SHOWER (Hit Me Off; performing artist: New Edition)

The Bridal Shower (1972)

Shower (1966)

Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Shower of Stars (1955)

Shower of Stars (1954)

The Golden Shower (1919)

Shower Me With Your Love (performing artist: Surface)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Bath and Shower Products: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Bath and Shower Products: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Bath and Shower Additives in Asia (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Bath & Shower Products (reference)

• The World Market for Plastic Baths, Shower Baths, Washbasins, Bidets, Flushing Cisterns, and Lavatory Pans, Seats, and Covers: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bridal Showers 2 Ed: Special Touches and Unique Ideas for Throwing a Fabulous Shower (reference)

• Put Soul in Your Bridal Shower: The African American Bridal Shower Book (reference)

• Shower Invitations: Sara Midda Baby Stationery (reference)

• Shower of Gold: Women and Girls in the Stories of India (reference)

• The Baby Shower Book: Etiquette, Decorations, Games, Food (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Nude Shower Girls 1 & 2 (reference)

• Shower (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Drew's Famous Bridal Shower (reference)

• Golden Shower of Hits (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Memorex MC1008 Shower CD Radio (reference)

• Slides Shower 2000 6.1 [DOWNLOAD] (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Waterpik NVFL-621VV Flexible Shower Massage (reference)

• Waterpik SM-650 Original Shower Massage Showerhead (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown is an adult black woman nude from the waist up performing breast self-examination (BSE). Her left arm is raised and she is examining her left breast with her right hand. She is also seen outside a shower setting. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Adult white woman is performing breast self-examination (BSE) in the shower. Her left arm is raised and she is examining her left breast. She is nude from the waist up and the photo includes her head (with a shower cap) to her waist area. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Electronic technician's camp on northern Eleuthera Island In support of shore navigation station for PEIRCE Vertical rectangular tent was the shower. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Taking a shower - Alaska style. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A late summer shower followed by a rainbow. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

U. S. Army Hospital Number 30, Royat, France. : Bathroom and latrine, showing hot water heater and shower baths. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Base Hospital No. 1. Vichy, France : Bath shower. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

April shower mazurka / T. Sinclair's lith., Phila. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Passing shower, Green Mountains. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shows pickers' tents, power unit and shower bath unit beyond. Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But she had not long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face

Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light

It was like a shower of roses upon this mourning

Hand basins lined another wall, while on the third wall were four shower compartments

But it is easiest, as they who work on the highways know, to find the hollows by the puddles after a shower.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Towel dry or shower immediately after leaving the water. (references)

After 8 hours, take a bath or shower to wash off the lotion. (references)

Hold on to grab bars for support when getting in and out of the bathtub or shower. (references)

Business

Complete programs for the bathroom including matching bathrobes, shower curtains, bath mats, terry cloth pillows and other accessories are also gaining popularity. (references)

Many resorts in Africa can realize immediate cost savings if they refit their properties with more efficient shower nozzles, better insulation materials, better heating, ventilation and air conditioning controls. (references)

Human Rights

Togo

Prison guards in the overcrowded civil prison of Lome charge prisoners a small fee to shower, use the toilet, or have a place to sleep. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shower": air shower ♦ baby shower ♦ cascade shower ♦ cold shower ♦ golden shower tree ♦ hand shower ♦ have a shower ♦ heavy shower ♦ make a shower ♦ meteor shower ♦ pink shower ♦ pink shower tree ♦ rain shower ♦ rainbow shower ♦ shower attachment ♦ shower bath ♦ shower boat ♦ shower cap ♦ shower cubicle ♦ shower curtain ♦ shower down ♦ shower gifts on smb. ♦ shower kisses upon a child ♦ shower nozzle ♦ shower of hail ♦ shower of rain ♦ shower of sparks ♦ shower room ♦ shower stall ♦ shower unit ♦ snow shower ♦ soft shower ♦ sun shower ♦ take a shower ♦ taking a shower. Additional references.

Beginning with "shower": shower-baths, shower-cabinet, shower-cap, shower-cubicle, shower-filled, shower-gel, shower-head, shower-jets, shower-proof, shower-room, shower-rooms.

Ending with "shower": arrow-shower, fire-shower, scoop-and-shower, sh-sh-shower, spit-shower, thunder-shower.

Afrikaans

stort. (various references)

Albanian

rrebesh shiu (downfall), drejtues shfaqjeje (showman), breshëri (fusillade, hail, salvo, volley). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وابل المطر, ‏حفلة تقام لفتاة على وشك الزواج, ‏حمام (bath, bathroom, douche, rest room, tub, water closet), ‏غيث, ‏غدق على, ‏تمطر (rain), ‏ترسل السماء وابلا, ‏عصابة (bandage, gang, herd, pack, ring, robbers, set, swathe, tape), ‏إنهيار (avalanche, breakdown, collapse, fall, plunge, ruin, slump, smash, split up), ‏إغتسل بالدش, ‏إستحم (bathe, swim, tub), ‏أمطار متفرقة (scattered showers), ‏شرذمة (platoon). (various references)

Asturian

ducha. (various references)

Aymara

jarsuña (to shower). (various references)

Bavarian

duschn. (various references)

Bemba

ukusamba (to wash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сипя (spew, volley), вземам душ, лея се (gush, pour, pour in, pour out, run, stream, teem down, well up), лея (dip, found, pour, rain, shed), преваляване (scud), поток (current, flow, gush, nullah, onflow, pour, river, run, runnel, stream, tide), дъжд (avalanche, precipitation, rain, wet), душ (douche), даряване на младоженка. (various references)

Catalan

dutxa. (various references)

Cebuano

gripo. (various references)

Chinese 

驟雨 , 阵雨, 瀑 (waterfall). (various references)

Cornish

cowas. (various references)

Czech

sprcha (douche, shower bath). (various references)

Danish

brusebad (douche, shower bath). (various references)

Dutch

stortbad (douche), een douche nemen, douchen (take a shower), douche (douche). (various references)

Esperanto

duŝo, duŝi. (various references)

Faeroese

stoytibað, skúrbað, sirmbað, brúsubað. (various references)

Farsi 

رگبار (Cloudburst, Spate, Volley), دوش گرفتن (Douche), دوش (Shoulder, Showerbath), درشت باران , باریدن (Rain). (various references)

Finnish

suihkuttaa (spout, spray, spurt), suihku (jet, spout, spray), sadekuuro, sade (rain), ryöppy (spray), kuuro (deaf). (various references)

French

douche (sharpen), averse. (various references)

Frisian

brûs (foam, froth). (various references)

German

Dusche (douche, shower bath), Schauer (shiver, shudder), Brause (douche, fizz, lemonade, pop, rose, sherbet, shower attachment, spray, sprinkler). (various references)

Greek 

μπόρα (cloudburst). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממטר (rain), מקלחת (bath, douche, shower bath), מטר (rain, rainfall, torrent), לקלח (spout), להמטיר (pelt, pour upon, rain), להתקלח (take a shower), להרעיף (drip, drop, impart, shed), תקלחת, גשם (rain), רביב (drizzle, droplet, rain). (various references)

Hungarian

zuhog (bucket, cascade, pelt, pour, to cascade, to lash, to pelt, to pour, to stream), zuhany (douche, dousing, needle bath, shower-bath), zúdul, záporszerû csapadék, záporesõ, zápor (downpour, drencher, driving rain, flurry, gust of rain, pelt, pour, rain, rain shower, volley), tus (black ink, butt, clack ink, douche, flourish, india ink, indian ink, ink). (various references)

Indonesian

melimpahkan (bestow, cause something ti spill over, give something generously). (various references)

Inuktitut

sauvaqluni (to shower). (various references)

Irish

cith. (various references)

Italian

doccia (douche), rovescio (back, backhand, downfall, heavy shower, opposite, other side, reverse, wrong side). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

通り雨 , シャモット煉瓦 (beautiful, chamotte brick, champagne, champignon, Champs Elysees, chandelier, chanson, chansonnier, Chantilly, charade, Charlotte, charm, charming, chou a la creme, cream-filled pastry, Schubert, shallot, shampoo, Shangri-la, shank, shoes, shoeshine, shoot, shooting script, ski jump, sugar, sugar coat, sugar cut, sure, surrealism), 一雨 (rainfall). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひとあめ (rainfall), シャワー , とおりあめ. (various references)

Korean 

샤워. (various references)

Macedonian

tus. (various references)

Manx

frass (rainfall), deayrtey (brew, brew of tea, efflux, effusion, pour, pour out, run over, shed, spill, spillage, stream). (various references)

Maori

ua-ina (to rain). (various references)

Maya

chulub. (various references)

Norwegian

dusj. (various references)

Papiamen

dush, ducha. (various references)

Pig Latin

owershay.(various references)

Polish

przysznic, natrysk. (various references)

Portuguese

chuveiro (shower-bath, showerhead, spatter, sprinkler), aguaceiro (downpour, flurry, rainfall, soaker, spill, squall). (various references)

Provencal

docha. (various references)

Romanian

ploua (rain), ploaie torenţialã (downfall, downpour, drench, drencher, pelter, torrent), inunda (deluge, drown, float, flood, flow, flush, glut, inundate, overflow, overrun, submerge, swamp), grindinã (hail, hailstone, stone, volley), duş (douche, shower bath, spray), copleşi (crush, flood, heap, invade, load, overcome, overpower, overwhelm, pelt, prostrate, smother, stun, whelm), avalanşã (avalanche, flow, snow-slide), acoperi cu o ploaie de pietre. (various references)

Romansch

duscha. (various references)

Ruanda

douche. (various references)

Russian 

ливень (cloudburst, cloud-burst, down pour, downfall, downpour, drench, drencher, hailstorm, pour, rainfall, rainstorm, thundershower), поток (current, flow, flux, gush, outpour, rain, spate, stream, tide, torrance, torrent, volley, watercourse), душ;ливень, душ (douche, shower bath, shower-bath). (various references)

Samoan

potutaele. (various references)

Scottish

fras (a shower). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svlačionica (dressing room, locker room), zasuti (bestrew, fill in, fire, overwhelm, pour), tuš (douche, indian ink, shower bath), rešetati (sift), proslava na kojoj se daju pokloni, pokisnuti (get wet), pljusak (downfall, downpour, drench, drencher, rain, rainstorm, soaker), osuti (hail), obasuti (besiege, bespatter, hurl, rain), obasipati (pelt). (various references)

Sicilian

duccia. (various references)

Spanish

ducha (douche, shower bath), chubasco (cloudburst, rain shower, squall), chaparrón (cloudburst, downfall, downpour, rain shower, scud, spate). (various references)

Swedish

skur (downpour, hail, salvo, spatter, volley), dusch (douche, shower bath, shower-bath). (various references)

Turkish

sağanak (down pour, downpour, drench, flurry, hail, heavy shower, rainfall, soak, soaker, spate, spatter, squall, torrent, waterspout), yağmuruna tutulmak, yağmuruna tutmak (besiege, bombard, deluge, rain, volley forth, volley out), yağdırmak (flood, hail, hail down, heap up, hurl, pelt, pour, pour forth, pour out, rain, volley, volley forth, volley out), kısa süreli yağmur, hediye yağmuru, hafif yağmur (thin rain), duş (douche, needle bath, shower bath), dökmek (cast, deplenish, deplete, diffuse, dump, effuse, empty, found, pour, pour from, pour out, pour out of, shed, slop, slosh on, spill, teem, tip, tip over, unbosom). (various references)

Ukrainian

засипати (assail, bestrew, bombard, deluge, stud, swamp), злива (cannonade, cloud-burst, deluge, downfall, drench, drencher, floodwaters, gush, hail, pour, scat, soaker, spate), литися зливою, лити зливою, безліч (a lot of, abundance, army, array, bag, bagful, barrel, bushel, cumulus, dozens, host, infinite, lashings, legion, lots of, multitude, number, numbers, ocean, oodles, orb, orgy, pack, plenty, reams, rout, ruck, scores, shoal, ton, variety, vast, wealth, wilderness, world), поливати (perfuse, water), душ (douche). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người trưng bày trận mưa rào, người dẫn, người cho xem, người chỉ. (various references)

Welsh

cawodi, cawod. (various references)

cataclysmus, congere, congeres, congessit, congesto, congestorum, imber, imbre, imbrem, imbres, imbri, imbris, pluo, pluvia, pluviae, pluviam, pluviarum, pluvias, pluviis. (various references)

scur. (various references)

doccia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "shower": showered, showerer, showerers, showerhead, showerheads, showering, showerless, showers, showery. (additional references)

Words ending with "shower": thundershower. (additional references)

Words containing "shower": thundershowers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shower" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hower, phwoar, Phwore, saower, schober, scower, shalwar, Shaowen, Shewa, shewe, shoer, shofer, Shomer, shoner, shopwer, shoter, shoure, Shover, showe, showel, showes, Showler, showne, shuer, Shuswap, sowar, stower. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: reshow, whores.

-1 letter: heros, hoers, horse, howes, resow, serow, shoer, shore, shrew, sower, swore, whore, whose, worse.

-2 letters: eros, hero, hers, hews, hoer, hoes, hose, howe, hows, ores, owes, owse, resh, rhos, roes, rose, rows, shew, shoe, show, sore, woes, wore.

-3 letters: ers, her, hes, hew, hoe, how, oes, ohs, ore, ors, ose, owe, res, rho.

+1 letter: howlers, preshow, reshown, reshows, showers, showery, showier.

+2 letters: chowders, cowherbs, cowherds, foreshow, meshwork, nowheres, preshown, preshows, reshowed, sawhorse, shadower, showered, showerer, throwers, warhorse, whoopers, whoppers, whoreson, whortles, whosever, worthies.

+3 letters: checkrows, foreshown, foreshows, hallowers, harrowers, headwords, headworks, hedgerows, homebrews, homewards, homeworks, honeworts, horseweed, horsewhip, housework, howitzers, howsoever, meshworks, northwest, otherwise, ownership, plowshare, preshowed, regrowths, reshowing, roughhews, sawhorses, seaworthy, shadowers, shadowier, shallower, shellwork, shipowner, shoreward, shortwave, showbread, showerers, showering, snowshoer, somewhere, supershow, throwster, warehouse, warhorses, whoredoms, whoresons, whosoever, workhorse, workhouse, worksheet, wormholes, worshiped, worshiper, worthiest, worthless.