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Bauer¹

  • /ˈbaʊ.əɹ/ UK
  • /ˈbaʊəɹ/ UK

Sounds like Bower, bower (some etymologies) · Rhymes with -aʊ.ə(ɹ), -aʊə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

* As a German and Jewish surname, from German Bauer (“farmer”). Compare Bower.

* Also as a German and Jewish surname, from the obsolete Middle High German noun (ge)būr (“neighbour”), from Old High German bur (“dwelling”).

proper noun

  1. A surname from German. University of Massachusetts epidemiologist Ann Bauer reviewed existing research in a paper published last month in the journal Environmental Health with Dr. Andrea Baccarelli, the dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in

bauer²

Where it comes from

From German Bauer. Doublet of Boer, boor, and bower.

noun bauers

  1. A German farmer or peasant. The large farmers are gentlemen of education, but the bauers are so occupied by the labour of routine, that they are excluded from all theoretical knowledge, and can make no other improvements than those which they may see practised by the larger farmers.

noun bauers

  1. Synonym of Ina Bauer

    Similar: Ina Bauer

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: bour, mendez, lechner, powell, boer, farmer, peasant, power, jack, ball, boyer, etal, hanssen, husbandman, landmann, ackermann

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Chicago

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@misc{bauer_2026,
  title = {bauer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bauer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}