BAY WINDOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bay window mean? 

• BAY WINDOW (noun)
  The noun BAY WINDOW has 2 senses:

1. slang for a paunch

2. a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house

  Familiarity information: BAY WINDOW used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAY WINDOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Slang for a paunch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

bay window; corporation; pot; potbelly; tummy

Hypernyms ("bay window" is a kind of...):

belly; paunch (a protruding abdomen)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bay window; bow window

Hypernyms ("bay window" is a kind of...):

window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bay window"):

oriel; oriel window (a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall)

 Context examples 

At one side of the fireplace was a heavy curtain which covered the bay window we had seen from outside.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were no marble-topped tables, long mirrors, or lace curtains in the little parlor, but simple furniture, plenty of books, a fine picture or two, a stand of flowers in the bay window, and, scattered all about, the pretty gifts which came from friendly hands and were the fairer for the loving messages they brought.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)