windowsill
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- noun
- /ˈwɪndoʊˌsɪl/
- The cat likes to sit on the windowsill and watch the birds outside.
- sun-filled windowsill
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Watch on YouTubeThat's happening if you put a fresh apple only on your windowsill and wait a few weeks and see what happens to the apple that you leave there.
- That's happening if you put a fresh apple only on your windowsill and wait a few weeks and see what happens to the apple that you leave there.
- Anyway, I put my feet up on this sort of windowsill and a mouse run across my foot and I was petrified.
Examples
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The man left it sitting on his windowsill.
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We've got our fresh baguette on the windowsill ready to eat for breakfast.
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We are looking at the windowsill upon which the phone is placed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Or just put it on your windowsill.
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I grew it myself on the windowsill.
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I grow it on my windowsill.
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Books were piled on the bed, on the windowsill, around the room.
Academic text (1994) -
These are little mini windowsill greenhouses.
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Two windows over, Big Uncle is resting on the windowsill and gazing outside.
Academic text (2009) -
And she smiled as she looked up; there was a bird sitting on her windowsill, chirping loudly.
Fiction book (1990)
How Deep
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Windowsill is a simple compound of window and sill, where sill means 'a small shelf or base under a window'. So a windowsill is the little shelf at the bottom of a window, the place you might put a pot of flowers or where a cat likes to sit.