dormer-window

See also: dormer window

English

Alternative forms

• dormer window

Etymology

See dormer.

Noun

dormer-window (plural dormer-windows)

1. An upright window built from a sloping roof.

   Synonyms: dormant window, dormer, lucarne, luthern

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.

Translations

upright window in a roof

• Armenian: երդիկ (hy) (erdik)
• Catalan: claraboia (ca)
• Czech: vikýř (cs) m
• Danish: kvistvindye c
• Dutch: dakvenster (nl) n
• Finnish: kattolyhty, ullakkoikkuna
• French: lucarne (fr) f
• Galician: viela f, bufarda (gl) f, lumieira (gl) f
• German: Gaube (de) f, Gaubenfenster n, Dachgaubenfenster n, Dachgaube (de) f
• Icelandic: kvistgluggi m
• Irish: fuinneog dhormánta f
• Italian: abbaino (it) m
• Newar: क्वपुझ्याः (kwapujhyā:)
• Norman: f'nêt' à mansarde f (Jersey)
• Plautdietsch: Dackfensta n
• Polish: facjata (pl) f
• Portuguese: trapeira
• Romanian: lucarnă (ro)
• Russian: слухово́е окно́ (ru) n (sluxovóje oknó)
• Scottish Gaelic: uinneag mullaich f
• Spanish: buhardilla (es)
• Venetian: abaino m