window

Speech parts

1. window - Noun

2. window - Verb

Meaning

An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material, as glass, and capable of being opened and shut at pleasure.

The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.

To furnish with windows.

To place at or in a window.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lantern oriel cristal casement dormer time porthole case period season space turn front port winker

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Antonyms

bank board door chart keyboard panel

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Hypernyms

period opening display frame framework gap

Hyponyms

dormer porthole panel foreground rosette clerestory

Phrases with the word

window blind stained-glass window window ledge slider window break a window out the window

Derivatives

windowed windowing

Examples

The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper. Stanisław Jerzy Lec

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. Steve Wozniak

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. Kahlil Gibran

It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. American Proverb

The stick that breaks the window does not kill a dog. Gypsy Proverb

You don't really see the world if you only look through your own window. Ukrainian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Windom Windon windore window back window bay window blind