WINDSHIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does windshield mean? 

• WINDSHIELD (noun)
  The noun WINDSHIELD has 1 sense:

1. transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle

  Familiarity information: WINDSHIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDSHIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

windscreen; windshield

Hypernyms ("windshield" is a kind of...):

screen (a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame)

Holonyms ("windshield" is a part of...):

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

motorboat; powerboat (a boat propelled by an internal-combustion engine)

automotive vehicle; motor vehicle (a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails)

 Context examples 

A type of alcohol used to make antifreeze, pesticides, windshield wiper fluid, paint thinner, certain types of fuel, and other substances.

(Methanol, NCI Dictionary)

It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields that mirrored a dozen suns.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)