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casement

casement noun: a window sash that is hinged on the side.

Noun

casement (plural casements)

  1. A window sash that is hinged on the side.
    • For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:6–7
  2. A window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ
    • Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood.1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
    • Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw him riding slowly over the heath.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 229
  3. A casemate. Some writers and readers consider casement a catachresis when used in this sense.

Proper noun capitalized: Casement

Casement (plural Casements)

  1. A surname from Irish.

casement meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

casement in Tamil

சகடு, பலகணிச்சட்டம், பலகணி, உட்குடைவான, செதுக்குமானம்

casement in Urdu

دریچہ

casement in Malayalam

കിളിവാതിൽ, ജാലകം, ചെറുജനൽ

Examples of casement in a sentence

  • The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night:
  • Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Forms of casement

Noun
pluralcasements
Proper noun
pluralCasements

Origin of casement

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Asmuint (“son of Asmund”), a personal name derived from Old Norse Asmundr, which is composed by the elements áss (“god”) + mundr (“protection”).

Words formed from casement

Phrases with casement

Questions about casement

What does casement mean?
Casement means a window sash that is hinged on the side.
What is casement in Tamil?
Casement in Tamil is சகடு, பலகணிச்சட்டம், பலகணி. See Casement meaning in Tamil.
How do you use casement in a sentence?
The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast.
What part of speech is casement?
Casement can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of casement?
The plural of casement is casements.

Words near casement in the dictionary

  1. caseman
  2. casemate
  3. casemated
  4. casemates
  5. casemen
  6. casement
  7. casement window
  8. casement windows
  9. casemented
  10. casements
  11. casemix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: casement (page history and authors); Casement (page history and authors); casement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); casement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); casement (Malayalam 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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