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Definition: Dormer |
DormerNoun1. A gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dormer" was first used: 1592. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building | The projecting frame of a recess in a sloping roof. (references) |
Public Administration | A vertical window set into and projecting from the slope of a pitched roof. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: DormerSynonym: dormer window (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Opening | Embrasure, window, casement; abatjour; light; sky light, fan light; lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel; dormer, lantern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dormer |
| English words defined with "dormer": Dormant window ♦ Lucarne, Luthern ♦ oxeye. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dormer": Luthern. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Architectural drawing for a dormer for William S. Corby, Ishpiming, 9 Chevy Chase Circle, Chevy Chase, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Philip Dormer Stanhope | Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards. |
| Women, especially, are to be talked to, as below men, and above children. | |
| Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them. | |
| The heart. . . commonly triumphs in every struggle with the understanding. | |
| If ever the multitude deviate into the right, it is always for the wrong reason. | |
| Women are much more like each other than men; they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Most of them had gone up to the window of the second story and to the dormer windows, whence they commanded the assailants |
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| "Dormer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.23% of the time. "Dormer" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.23% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.77% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 52 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dormer" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dormer | Last name | 200 | 38,170 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "dormer": dormer window ♦ Philip Dormer Stanhope. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dormer": dormer-roofed, dormer-windowed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dormer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dritare papafingoje (dormer window), papafingo (attic, garret, loft), gallustër (lantern, skylight), baxhë (manhole, scuttle, skylight, slot). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | капандура. (various references) | |
Czech | vertikální okno (dormer window). (various references) | |
Danish | tagvindue (skylight), kvistvindue. (various references) | |
Dutch | dakvenster (skylight), dakraam (porthole, skylight), dakkapel (dormer window). (various references) | |
Farsi | پنجره جلوامده زیرسقف ساختمان . (various references) | |
French | lucarne a fronton-pignon (dormer window), lucarne. (various references) | |
German | Dachfenster (dormer window, skylight). (various references) | |
Greek | παράθυρο σκεπής, φεγγίτησ (dormitory, hatch, scuttle, skylight, transom window), φεγγίτης (deadlight, skylight). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tetõablak (dormer window, gable window, skylight, storm window). (various references) | |
Italian | lucernario (skylight), abbaino (attic, cock-loft, garret, loft). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 明かり採り (skylight, transom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あかりとり (skylight, transom). (various references) | |
Manx | uinnag chlea (dormer window, skylight). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ormerday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trapeira (dormer window, garret, louver, louvre), auditivo (audio, auditory, hearing). (various references) | |
Romanian | lucarnã (dormer window, light, skylight), fereastrã de fronton (dormer window). (various references) | |
Russian | слуховое окно (dormer window, gable window), слуховое (dormer-window), мансардное окно (dormer-window). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prozor na nagnutom krovu (dormer window). (various references) | |
Spanish | dormitorio (bedchamber, bedroom, dormitory, sleeping quarters), tragaluz (skylight), lumbrera (louver, Louvre, luminary, port, pundit, vent), lucarna, claraboya (skylight). (various references) | |
Swedish | vindskupefönster (dormer window). (various references) | |
Turkish | taban direği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | слухове вікно (dormant), почивальня. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cửa sổ ở mái nh (dormer-window, skylight). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | dormeor. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dormer": dormers. (additional references) | |
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"Dormer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daymer, Dermer, Domaru, domer, dorer, D'orfeo, dorma, Dormael, dorme, dormey, dormez, dormi, Dormia, dormir, dormit, dorne, Dorner, dornier, dorter, Doumer, dozmary, Droemer, drome, Dromi, Dromora, droner, durer, hormer, ormer, Tromeur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dormer" (pronounced dô"rmer) |
| 4 | -ô" r m er | former, informer, performer, reformer, transformer, warmer. |
| 3 | -r m er | armer, Armor, armour, charmer, farmer, Harmer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-m-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: order, ormer. | |
-2 letters: demo, derm, doer, dome, dore, dorm, dorr, mode, more, omer, redo, rode. | |
-3 letters: doe, dom, dor, err, med, mod, mor, ode, ore, red, rem, rod, roe, rom. | |
-4 letters: de, do, ed, em, er, me, mo, od, oe, om, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-m-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: armored, dormers, remorid, rumored. | |
+2 letters: airdrome, armoured, carromed, deformer, dewormer, emborder, marrowed, mirrored, misorder, moderner, mortared, prodrome, reformed, rumoured. | |
+3 letters: aerodrome, airdromes, broodmare, camcorder, comradery, deformers, deprogram, dewormers, dromedary, durometer, emborders, embroider, forearmed, madrepore, misorders, misrecord, moderator, murderous, performed, preformed, premodern, prodromes, programed, protoderm, ramrodded, regroomed, unarmored. | |
+4 letters: aerodromes, bombardier, bridegroom, broodmares, camcorders, compradore, dendriform, dendrogram, deprograms, dreamworld, durometers, embordered, embroiders, embroidery, hemorrhoid, hydrometer, madrepores, madreporic, misericord, misordered, misrecords, moderators, modernizer, nonadmirer, overwarmed, programmed, promenader, protoderms, radiometer, radiometry, randomizer, redemptory, reimported, reinformed, rhabdomere, threadworm, unreformed, wordmonger. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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