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dormer window

dormer window is the alternative form of dormer-window.

Meaning of dormer-window

Noun

dormer-window (plural dormer-windows)

  1. An upright window built from a sloping roof.
    • He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars

Forms of dormer window

pluraldormer windows

Questions about dormer window

What is dormer window the alternative form of?
Dormer window is the alternative form of dormer-window.

Words near dormer window in the dictionary

  1. dormative
  2. dormaunt
  3. dormcest
  4. dormed
  5. dormer
  6. dormer window
  7. dormer windows
  8. Dormer's bat
  9. Dormer's bats
  10. dormer-window
  11. dormer-windows

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dormer window (page history and authors); dormer-window (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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