ARBOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arbour mean? 

• ARBOUR (noun)
  The noun ARBOUR has 1 sense:

1. a framework that supports climbing plants

  Familiarity information: ARBOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARBOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A framework that supports climbing plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

arbor; arbour; bower; pergola

Context example:

the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park

Hypernyms ("arbour" is a kind of...):

frame; framework (a structure supporting or containing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "arbour"):

grape arbor; grape arbour (an arbor where grapes are grown)

 Context examples 

He turned in some surprise towards the rustic arbour in which we sat.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The good understanding between the Colonel and Miss Dashwood seemed rather to declare that the honours of the mulberry-tree, the canal, and the yew arbour, would all be made over to HER; and Mrs. Jennings had, for some time ceased to think at all of Mrs. Ferrars.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire—making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Dr. Sterndale raised his giant figure, bowed gravely, and walked from the arbour.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here, Jane, is an arbour; sit down.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Two thousand a year without debt or drawback—except the little love-child, indeed; aye, I had forgot her; but she may be 'prenticed out at a small cost, and then what does it signify? Delaford is a nice place, I can tell you; exactly what I call a nice old fashioned place, full of comforts and conveniences; quite shut in with great garden walls that are covered with the best fruit-trees in the country; and such a mulberry tree in one corner! Lord! how Charlotte and I did stuff the only time we were there! Then, there is a dove-cote, some delightful stew-ponds, and a very pretty canal; and every thing, in short, that one could wish for; and, moreover, it is close to the church, and only a quarter of a mile from the turnpike-road, so 'tis never dull, for if you only go and sit up in an old yew arbour behind the house, you may see all the carriages that pass along.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Come into the arbour here and let us discuss it together.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)