Arbour Definition

ärbər
noun

Arbor.

Webster's New World

A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.

Wiktionary

Eye dialect spelling of harbour.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb

Eye dialect spelling of harbour.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Arbour

Noun

Singular:
arbour
Plural:
arbours

Origin of Arbour

  • Middle English arbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”). The phonetic change to ar- was assisted by association with Latin arbor (“tree”).

    From Wiktionary

  • A representation of the pronunciation of harbour by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition (IPA: [h]).

    From Wiktionary

Arbour Sentence Examples

  • The Metropolitan police courts are fourteen in number, namely - Bow Street, Covent Garden; Clerkenwell; Great Marlborough Street (Westminster); Greenwich and Woolwich; Lambeth; Marylebone; North London, Stoke Newington Road; Southwark; South Western, Lavender Hill (Battersea); Thames, Arbour Street East (Stepney); West Ham; West London, Vernon Street (Fulham); Westminster, Vincent Square; Worship Street (Shoreditch).

  • In the time of Isaak Walton there stood by it a shady arbour to which the angler was wont to resort.

  • From the garden it looked like an arbour.

Arbour Is Also Mentioned In

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to arbour using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

AARARB

Words Ending With

RUROUR

Unscrambles

arbour

Words Starting With A and Ending With R

Starts With A & Ends With RStarts With AR & Ends With RStarts With A & Ends With UR

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With A6 Letter Words Ending With R