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louvers

louvers is the plural of louver.

Meaning of louver

Noun

louver (plural louvers)

  1. A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
    • But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (in plural) A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.
  3. Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.

Questions about louvers

What is louvers the plural of?
Louvers is the plural of louver.

Words near louvers in the dictionary

  1. louvar
  2. louvars
  3. Louve
  4. louver
  5. louvered
  6. louvers
  7. Louviere
  8. Louvieres
  9. louvre
  10. louvred
  11. louvres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: louvers (page history and authors); louver (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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