windshield

English

Etymology

wind +‎ shield

Noun

windshield (plural windshields)

1. (Canada, US) A transparent screen made of glass, located at the front and back of a vehicle in front of its occupants to protect them from the wind and weather.

   The freezing rain covered our windshield with ice and we couldn't see a thing.

2. A cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises such as wind and breathing.

Synonyms

• (UK, Australian English) windscreen

Related terms

• windshield wiper

Translations

screen located in front of a vehicle to protect from wind and weather

• Arabic: زجاج السيارة الأمامي
• Armenian: դիմապակի (dimapaki)
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• Catalan: parabrisa m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擋風玻璃 (zh), 挡风玻璃 (zh) (dǎngfēng bōli), 風擋 (zh), 风挡 (zh) (fēngdǎng)

• Cornish: skew wyns f
• Czech: přední sklo n
• Danish: forrude (da) c
• Dutch: voorruit (nl)
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• Finnish: tuulilasi (fi)
• French: pare-brise (fr) m
• Galician: parabrisas m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Windschutzscheibe (de) f
• Greek: παρμπρίζ (el) n (parmpríz)
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• Hungarian: szélvédő (hu)
• Icelandic: framrúða f
• Ido: paravento (io)
• Italian: parabrezza (it) m

• Japanese: フロントガラス (furontogurasu)
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• Macedonian: ветробран m (vétrobran)
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• Norman: ôsaine dé d'vant f (front), ôsaine dé driéthe f (rear)
• Norwegian: frontrute f
• Persian: شیشه‌ی جلو‎‎
• Polish: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: para-brisa (pt) m, para-brisas m
• Romanian: parbriz (ro) n, ferastră de față f
• Russian: ветрово́е стекло́ (ru) n (vetrovóje stekló), лобово́е стекло́ (ru) n (lobovóje stekló)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) ве̏тробра̄н m, (Ijekavian) вје̏тробра̄н m, шофершајбна f

  Roman: (Ekavian) vȅtrobrān (sh) m, (Ijekavian) vjȅtrobrān (sh) m, šoferšajbna f

• Spanish: parabrisas (es) m
• Swedish: vindruta (sv) c
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• Vietnamese: kính chắn gió
• Volapük: tavienvitür
• Welsh: sgrin wynt f

Verb

windshield (third-person singular simple present windshields, present participle windshielding, simple past and past participle windshielded)

1. (transitive) To install a windshield on.