WINDOW SEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does window seat mean? 

• WINDOW SEAT (noun)
  The noun WINDOW SEAT has 1 sense:

1. a bench or similar seat built into a window recess

  Familiarity information: WINDOW SEAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDOW SEAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bench or similar seat built into a window recess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

bench (a long seat for more than one person)

 Context examples 

It could be nothing but the violence of the wind penetrating through the divisions of the shutters; and she stepped boldly forward, carelessly humming a tune, to assure herself of its being so, peeped courageously behind each curtain, saw nothing on either low window seat to scare her, and on placing a hand against the shutter, felt the strongest conviction of the wind's force.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Books and papers everywhere, a broken meerschaum, and an old flute over the mantlepiece as if done with, a ragged bird without any tail chirped on one window seat, and a box of white mice adorned the other.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)