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Bowery

//ˈbaʊəɹi// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
"Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb."

Adjective

1
like a bower; leafy and shady wordnet

Proper Noun

1
A surname from Middle English.
2
A street and a district of New York City, whose residents were traditionally of a low socioeconomic class.
"We were seen quarrelling this afternoon in a saloon over on the Bowery."

Noun

1
Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
"The group performed in the old bowery, an open-air building with a roof of branches laid over vertical poles, the forerunner of the first tabernacle."
2
In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate. archaic
"His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From bower + -y.

Etymology 2

From bower + -y.

Etymology 3

From bower + -y, calque of Dutch bouwerij.

Etymology 4

Unexplained. Perhaps a topographic surname for someone who lived in a small cottage, from Middle English bour (“chamber, cottage”) or, alternatively, an occupational surname for someone who worked there.

Etymology 5

From Dutch bouwerij (“farm”).

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