shower – English noun declension

English noun forms of shower

Noun: shower
Singularshower
Pluralshowers

Sample Sentences

  • Today there will be frequent showers and some sunny spells.
  • They are wet with the showres of the mountaines, and imbrace the rocke for want of a shelter. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 24:8:]
  • Occasionally, the sun pierces the clouds like a searchlight to illuminate a feature such as a farm, copse or stream, before being overwhelmed by an advancing shower. Wordsworth would have loved it! [2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:]
  • I’m going to have a shower.
  • I’m going to take a shower.
  • a shower of sparks;  a meteor shower;  a Gatorade shower
  • The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire. [1958 February 26, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:]
  • Would male strippers be appropriate for the divorce shower?
  • Her church group has planned an adoption shower.
  • The shower will be held at the home of the bridesmaid.
  • Her friends are throwing her a shower after her mom leaves.
  • See also shower (juggling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • With this I maye be sure to come sauf / and goo sauf / and that the quene shal haue her lyberte as she had before / and neuer for no thynge that hath ben surmysed afore this tyme / she neuer fro this day stande in no peryll / for els sayd sir launcelot I dare auenture me to kepe her from an harder shoure than euer I kepte her [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XX:]
  • You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower [1956, Private's Progress (motion picture)]
  • It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control. [1991, Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 208, →ISBN:]
  • But when I tweeted it out, most of the responses (from the more than one million viewers) were along the lines of: 'what do you expect from this shower? [2023 October 18, Christian Wolmar, “The back of a fag packet used for unworkable rail plans”, in RAIL, number 994, page 45:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English schour (“shower”), from Old English sċūr (“shower”), from Proto-West Germanic *skūru (“shower”), from Proto-Germanic *skūrō (“storm, short shower”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north, north wind, cold wind, rain shower”).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Dutch schoer (“downpour, heavy rainshower”), German Schauer (“shower”), Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish skur (“shower”), Faroese skúrur (“shower”), Icelandic skúr (“shower”), Norn skur (“squall”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌰 (skūra, “storm”), Italian coro (“northwestern wind”), Spanish cauro (“northwestern wind”), Belarusian се́вер (sjévjer), сі́вер (sívjer), Bulgarian and Russian се́вер (séver, “north”), Czech and Slovak sever (“north”), Macedonian север (sever, “north”), Serbo-Croatian sȅvēr, sjȅvēr (“north”), Slovene sẹ́ver (“north”), Ukrainian сі́вер (síver, “cold, cold, bitter wind”). See: Middle English Nouns 'schour', Dutch Nouns 'schoer', German Nouns 'Schauer', Swedish Nouns 'skur', Faroese Nouns 'skúrur', Icelandic Nouns 'skúr', Gothic Nouns '𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌰', Italian Nouns 'coro', Slovak Nouns 'sever'.

Verbs referencing "shower"

Czech Nouns sever, Old Norse Nouns skúr, German Nouns Schauer, Latin Nouns caurus, Swedish Nouns skur, Dutch Nouns schoer, Zulu Nouns ishawa.