Arbor

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Literally, a tree: used in this sense chiefly in botanical names.
  • noun. In mech.: The main support or beam of a machine.
  • noun. The principal spindle or axis of a wheel or pinion communicating motion to the other moving parts.
  • noun. A platform of boards upon which sea-island cotton is dried to prevent heating and improve the luster.
  • noun. A grass-plot; a lawn; a green.
  • noun. A garden of herbs or of flowering plants; a flower-bed or flower-garden.
  • noun. 3. A collection of fruit-trees; an orchard.
  • noun. A bower formed by trees, shrubs, or vines intertwined, or trained over a latticework, so as to make a leafy roof, and usually provided with seats; formerly, any shaded walk.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.
  • noun. A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.
  • noun. A mandrel in lathe turning.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
  • noun. A grove of trees.
  • noun. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  • noun. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  • noun. A spindle of a wheel.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. tree (as opposed to shrub)
  • noun. a framework that supports climbing plants
  • noun. any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
  • Word Usage
    "No. The arbor is actually a medium size, meaning larger than normal but unfortunately not as big as many models."
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Barber  arbour  barber  barbre  harbor  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arbour  archway  bower  pergola  portico  
    Synonym
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    alcove  axis  axle  axle  axle bar