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bay window

bay window noun: a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.

bay window: a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room
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Noun

bay window (plural bay windows)

  1. A window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
  2. (figuratively, slang) A protruding belly.
    • Marriages that are based only on sex appeal generally fizzle out as soon as he gets a bay window and her figure becomes a bit lumpish.1948, Godfrey Poage, What You Ought to Know Before Marriage, St. Louis: The Queen’s Work, page 12
    • Bert came hustling up, bumping his way through the kids with his bay window.1982, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending, McClelland & Stewart, published 2004, →ISBN, page 126
  3. (figuratively, slang) The stomach of a pregnant woman.

bay window meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

bay window in Tamil

தூணிடைப்பலகணி

bay window in Bengali

bay window
গবাক্ষ gobakkho

bay window in Kannada

ಹೊರಚಾಚಿರುವ ಎತ್ತರದ ಕಿಟಕಿ

Forms of bay window

pluralbay windows

Origin of bay window

From Middle English baywyndow, baywyndowe, bay-windowe, equivalent to bay + window where bay refers to an opening between columns.

Questions about bay window

What does bay window mean?
Bay window means a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room.
What is bay window in Tamil?
Bay window in Tamil is தூணிடைப்பலகணி. See Bay window meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bay window?
Bay window is a noun.
What is the plural of bay window?
The plural of bay window is bay windows.

Words near bay window in the dictionary

  1. Bay Street
  2. bay tree
  3. bay trees
  4. bay willow
  5. bay willows
  6. bay window
  7. bay windows
  8. bay yarn
  9. bay yarns
  10. bay'd
  11. bay-beh

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bay window (page history and authors); bay window (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গবাক্ষ (Bengali) (page history and authors); bay window (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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