dormer-window

  • 21dormer — n. [Written also Dormar.] Luthern, dormer window …

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  • 22window — window, casement, dormer, oriel can mean an opening in the wall of a building that is usually covered with glass and serves to admit light and air. Window is the ordinary general term for the entire structure, including both its framework and the …

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  • 23dormer — 1590s, originally window of a sleeping room, from M.Fr. dormeor sleeping room, from dormir to sleep (see DORMANT (Cf. dormant)) …

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  • 24dormer — n *window, casement, oriel …

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  • 25window — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. casement, dormer, opening; pane; bay window, oriel; port[hole]; skylight; embrasure, loophole. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An architectural opening for light and air] Syn. skylight, porthole, bay window,… …

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  • 26window — noun 1 in a building, car, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ big, huge, large, long, tall, wide ▪ narrow, small, tiny …

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  • 27dormer — noun Dormer is used before these nouns: ↑window …

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  • 28dormer — also dormer win.dow noun (C) a window built upright in the slope of a roof …

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  • 29dormer — Synonyms and related words: bay, bay window, bow window, casement, casement window, fan window, fanlight, grille, lancet window, lantern, lattice, light, louver window, oriel, pane, picture window, port, porthole, rose window, skylight, transom,… …

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  • 30dormer — noun Etymology: Middle French dormeor dormitory, from Latin dormitorium Date: 1592 a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof; also the roofed structure containing such a window • dormered adjective …

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