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Towers

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A habitational surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A habitational surname.

  2. 2

    [after a name, typically that of the speaker/writer or publication] the putative palatial address of the named person or corporate entity

    And aren't we all looking forward to the Signals episode on architecture featuring — well wouldn't you know it? — James Stirling, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster[...] Well, no, we're not exactly pencilling it in our diary here at Punch Towers. We are frankly getting rather tired of hearing about Messrs F, R and S.

    There is currently serious work taking place on his [sc. Michael O'Leary's] 10,000sq ft Victorian mansion on Dublin's very smart Raglan Road.

    Harry had a flat in a small block in a pleasant tree-lined suburb about a mile from the hospital. ... He was waiting for her in his open doorway. 'Welcome to Harry Black Towers,' he said, bowing.

    Guardian Towers is being evacuated following a fire alarm... we’ll be back as soon as possible

Etymology

From towers.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of Towerplural of Tower

Forms

plural
Towerses
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).