Bower

Bower may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Catherine, or The Bower, an unfinished Jane Austen novel
 * A high-ranking card (usually a Jack) in certain card games:
 * The Right and Left Bower (or Bauer), the two highest-ranking cards in the game of Euchre
 * The Best and Under Bower in the game of Bester Bauer
 * The Right and Left Bower in the game of Réunion
 * Bower Studios, a design studio based in NYC.

Places

 * Bower, South Australia, a town
 * Bower, Highland, Scotland, a village and civil parish
 * Bower, Nebraska, a ghost town in the United States
 * Bower, West Virginia, a ghost town in the United States
 * Havering-atte-Bower, a village within the London Borough of Havering
 * Mount Bower, Victoria Land, Antarctica

People

 * Bower (surname)
 * Bower Featherstone, Canadian civil servant convicted of espionage in 1966
 * E. Bower Carty (1916–2001), Canadian public servant and Chairman of the World Scout Committee
 * Roger Squires (1932–2023), British retired crossword compiler/setter, one of whose pseudonyms was Bower

Other uses

 * The Bower, a building in Jefferson County, West Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places
 * Bower Award
 * 1639 Bower, an asteroid
 * Bower railway station, Highland, Scotland
 * A sculpture built by a bowerbird to attract a mate
 * A dwelling or lean-to shelter, also known as a pergola
 * An anchor carried at the bow of a ship
 * A woman's bedroom or private apartments, especially in a medieval castle – cf. boudoir