Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - shower

(showers, showering, showered) 1. A shower is a device for washing yourself. It consists of a pipe which ends in a flat cover with a lot of holes in it so that water comes out in a spray. She heard him turn on the shower. N-COUNT 2. A shower is a small enclosed area containing a shower. N-COUNT 3. The showers or the shower in a place such as a sports centre is the area containing showers. The showers are a mess... We all stood in the women’s shower. N-COUNT 4. If you have a shower, you wash yourself by standing under a spray of water from a shower. I think I’ll have a shower before dinner... She took two showers a day. N-COUNT 5. If you shower, you wash yourself by standing under a spray of water from a shower. There wasn’t time to shower or change clothes. VERB: V 6. A shower is a short period of rain, especially light rain. There’ll be bright or sunny spells and scattered showers this afternoon. N-COUNT 7. You can refer to a lot of things that are falling as a shower of them. Showers of sparks flew in all directions. N-COUNT: usu N of n 8. If you are showered with a lot of small objects or pieces, they are scattered over you. They were showered with rice in the traditional manner... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed with n 9. If you shower a person with presents or kisses, you give them a lot of presents or kisses in a very generous and extravagant way. He showered her with emeralds and furs... Her parents showered her with kisses. VERB: V n with n, V n with n 10. A shower is a party or celebration at which the guests bring gifts.; If you refer to a group of people as a particular kind of shower, you disapprove of them. (mainly AM BRIT INFORMAL) ...a baby shower. ...a shower of wasters. N-COUNT; N-SING: usu sing, oft N of n c darkgreen]disapproval