windshield

English

Etymology

wind +‎ shield

Pronunciation

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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 force generated by the vehicle's speed and inclement 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

• Apache:

  Western Apache: bitaʼ

• Arabic: زُجَاج السَيَّارَة الأَمَامِيّ‎ (zujāj as-sayyāra(t) al-ʾamāmiyy)
• Armenian: դիմապակի (hy) (dimapaki), հողմապակի (hy) (hołmapaki)
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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)
• Esperanto: ventoŝirmilo, antaŭa glaco
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: forrútur m, framrútur m
• Finnish: tuulilasi (fi)
• French: pare-brise (fr) m, parebrise (fr) m
• Galician: parabrisas m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Windschutzscheibe (de) f
• Greek: παρμπρίζ (el) n (parmpríz)
• Hebrew: מגן רוח‎ m (magén rúakh), שמשה‎ (he) f (shimshá)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szélvédő (hu)
• Icelandic: framrúða f
• Ido: paravento (io)

• Italian: parabrezza (it) m
• Japanese: フロントガラス (furontogurasu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ветробран m (vetrobran)
• Malay: cermin depan
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: ôsaine dé d'vant f
• Norwegian: frontrute f
• Occitan: parabrisa f
• Persian: شیشه‌ی جلو‎
• Polish: przednia szyba
• 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
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
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• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: kính chắn gió
• Volapük: tavienvitür
• Welsh: sgrin wynt f

cover for a microphone to exclude airy noises

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: tuulisuoja (fi)
• French: bonnette anti-vent f

• German: Windschutz m, Mikrofon-Windschutz m
• Portuguese: pára-brisas m
• Spanish: cortavientos (es) m

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To install a windshield on.