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

casement dormer porthole opening screen pane bay window skylight glazing windowpane window of opportunity lantern oriel cristal oculus
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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

out the window out of the window go out the window window dressing window-shopping window pane

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