shop window

See also: shopwindow

English

Alternative forms

• shopwindow (mainly US)

Etymology

From Middle English shop window, shop wyndowe, equivalent to shop +‎ window.

Noun

shop window (plural shop windows)

1. A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.

   Synonyms: display case, display window, store window, window

   • 1963 March, Brian Haresnape, “New B.R. carriages to compete for the long-distance passenger”, in Modern Railways, page 165:

     The passenger carriage was recognised as one of the "shop windows" of the railways and thus an essential element in the important work of achieving a greatly improved public image.

   • 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 168:

     The enthusiasm with which the private industry has treated the high speed rail concept can do the Corporation some good, and maybe even encourage the completion of the originally proposed electrification from New Haven to Boston. It will then have a high speed 'shop window', comparable with any in the world.

Synonyms

• show window

Related terms

• window-shopping

Translations

large window at the front of a shop

• Albanian: vitrinë (sq) f
• Arabic: شُبَّاك m (šubbāk), فَاتْرِينَة f (fatrīna), واجِهَة f (wājiha)
• Armenian: ցուցափեղկ (hy) (cʻucʻapʻeġk), վիտրին (vitrin)
• Azerbaijani: vitrin (az)
• Basque: erakusleiho
• Belarusian: вітры́на f (vitrýna)
• Bulgarian: витри́на f (vitrína)
• Catalan: aparador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 櫥窗／橱窗 (zh) (chúchuāng)

• Czech: výloha (cs) f, výklad (cs) m, výkladní skříň f, vitrína (cs) f
• Danish: butiksvindue n
• Dutch: etalage (nl) f, uitstalraam (nl) n, vitrine (nl) f
• Esperanto: giĉeto
• Estonian: vitriin (et) f
• Finnish: ikkuna (fi), näyteikkuna (fi), vitriini (fi)
• French: vitrine (fr) f
• Galician: vidreira (gl) f, escaparate (gl) m
• Georgian: ვიტრინა (ka) (viṭrina)
• German: Schaufenster (de) n
• Greek: βιτρίνα (el) f (vitrína)
• Hebrew: חלון ראווה (khalon re'ava)
• Hindi: दुकान की खिड़की f (dukān kī khiṛkī)
• Hungarian: kirakat (hu)
• Indonesian: etalase (id)
• Irish: fuinneog (ga) f
• Italian: vetrina (it) f
• Japanese: ショーウィンドウ (shōwindō)
• Kazakh: витрина (vitrina)
• Korean: 쇼윈도 (ko) (syowindo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پەنجەرە (pencere)

• Kyrgyz: витрина (vitrina)
• Latin: fenestra tabernaria f
• Latvian: vitrīna f
• Lithuanian: vitrina f
• Macedonian: излог m (izlog)
• Navajo: tsésǫʼ
• Norman: d'vantuthe f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: butikkvindu n

• Ottoman Turkish: جامكان (camekân)
• Persian: ویترین (fa) (vitrin)
• Polish: witryna (pl) f, wystawa (pl) f, okno (pl) n
• Portuguese: montra (pt) f, vitrina f, vitrine (pt) f
• Romanian: vitrină (ro) f
• Russian: витри́на (ru) f (vitrína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: витри́на f, ѝзлог m

  Roman: vitrína (sh) f, ìzlog (sh) m

• Slovak: výklad m, vitrína
• Slovene: izložbeno okno n, izložba (sl) f, vitrina f
• Spanish: escaparate (es) m, vitrina (es) f, vidriera (es) f
• Swedish: skyltfönster (sv) n
• Tajik: витрина (vitrina)
• Turkish: vitrin (tr), camekân (tr)
• Turkmen: witrina
• Ukrainian: вітри́на f (vitrýna)
• Uzbek: vitrina (uz)

References

• “shop window”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• window-shop