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.
   • 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: display case, display window, store window, window

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)
• Belarusian: вітры́на f (vitrýna)
• Bulgarian: витри́на f (vitrína)
• Catalan: aparador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 櫥窗／橱窗 (zh) (chúchuāng), 橱窗 (zh) (chúchuāng)

• Czech: výloha (cs) f, výklad (cs) m, výkladní skříň f, vitrína 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
• 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)
• 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)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: витрина (vitrina)
• Latin: fenestra tabernaria f
• Latvian: vitrīna f
• Lithuanian: vitrina f
• Macedonian: излог m (izlog)
• Navajo: tsésǫʼ
• Norman: d'vantuthe f
• Norwegian: butikkvindu n
• Persian: ویترین (fa) (vitrin)
• Polish: witryna (pl) f, wystawa (pl) f
• Portuguese: montra (pt) f, vitrina f, vitrine (pt) f
• Romanian: vitrină (ro) f
• Russian: витри́на (ru) f (vitrína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: витрина f, излог m

  Roman: vitrina (sh) f, izlog (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)
• Turkmen: witrina
• Ukrainian: вітри́на f (vitrýna)
• Uzbek: vitrina (uz)

References

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

Anagrams

• window-shop