Bower may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Catherine, or The Bower, an unfinished Jane Austen novel
A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games: The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the game of Euchre The Best and Under Bower in the game of Bester Bauer The Right and Left Bower in the game of Réunion Bower Studios, a design studio based in NYC.
Places
Bower, South Australia, a town
Bower, Highland, Scotland, a village and civil parish
Bower, Nebraska, a ghost town in the United States
Bower, West Virginia, a ghost town in the United States
Havering-atte-Bower, a village within the London Borough of Havering
Mount Bower, Victoria Land, Antarctica
People
Bower (surname) Bower Featherstone, Canadian civil servant convicted of espionage in 1966 E. Bower Carty (1916–2001), Canadian public servant and Chairman of the World Scout Committee Roger Squires (born 1932), British retired crossword compiler/setter, one of whose pseudonyms was Bower
Other uses
The Bower, a building in Jefferson County, West Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places Bower Award 1639 Bower, an asteroid Bower railway station, Highland, Scotland A sculpture built by a bowerbird to attract a mate A dwelling or lean-to shelter, also known as a pergola An anchor carried at the bow of a ship A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle – cf. boudoir
See also
Pandorea jasminoides, a vine species also known as the bower of beauty, bower vine or bower plant Bower House, a grade I listed Palladian mansion in Havering-atte-Bower, England Bower Fold, Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England, the home ground of Stalybridge Celtic football club Bower Place, a shopping centre in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada Bower Manuscript, a Sanskrit manuscript Bauer (disambiguation) Bowers (disambiguation) Bowery (disambiguation)