Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a tower or some aspect of one.

Etymologies

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tower +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The towerlike building was originally the Forest Hills Inn, which functioned as the social heart of the community, a sort of vertical country club.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • The towerlike building was originally the Forest Hills Inn, which functioned as the social heart of the community, a sort of vertical country club.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • The towerlike building was originally the Forest Hills Inn, which functioned as the social heart of the community, a sort of vertical country club.

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • At each of the corners rose a mud parapet, a towerlike structure, some 80 feet high and 150 feet across, and built strong enough to support the weight of 10-ton tanks, which could be driven onto the parapet up long, gradual mud ramps rising from the fortress floor.

    Doug Stanton: Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan 2009

  • At each of the corners rose a mud parapet, a towerlike structure, some 80 feet high and 150 feet across, and built strong enough to support the weight of 10-ton tanks, which could be driven onto the parapet up long, gradual mud ramps rising from the fortress floor.

    Horse Soldiers Tripp 2009

  • There were even huge searchlights on a towerlike thing.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • There were even huge searchlights on a towerlike thing.

    DO NOT PASS GO KIRKPATRICK HILL 2007

  • When the Swiss Voted to Ban New Minarets, This Man Built One construction of new minarets, the towerlike structures that adorn mosques.

    The Best Revenge White, Stephen, 1951- 2003

  • He projected the power past the slate roof of the round towerlike silo, sending a little spark into it to find tinder.

    Brightly Burning Lackey, Mercedes 2000

  • Here was located what appeared to be a tavern, yet was not; it was the headquarters of the College of Crossroads Brethren who supervised the well-being and spiritual life of the crossroads outside its double doors, especially the towerlike shrine to the Lares and the big fountain, which now flowed sluggishly amid a tumble of ethereally blue icicles, so cold was this winter.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

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