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🏠 A roof window 🏠 To add roof windows
to dormer

to dormer

7.0
To add a window that sticks out from a roof to give light and space to an attic
  • verb
  • /ˈdɔrmər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : añadir buhardillas

Examples

  • Also, the ceilings are low and rounded, dormered on the second floor.

    Blog text (24)

  • The army continued past the dormered cottages of Middleburg, on toward Leesburg and Waterford.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • It was three stories high, with a dormered roof and a severely balanced facade: a pair of windows on either side of the arched front door, which had a fanlight transom above.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • The architect decided to dormer the house to increase natural light in the attic.

  • After the renovation, they dormer the old building, adding charming windows to the roof.

  • They plan to dormer the cottage next summer to create a bright loft space.

Compounds

dormer window
1 6.5

A window that sticks out from a sloping roof to give more light and space

Surface Forms

dormer infinitive
dormered past
dormered past participle
dormering present participle
dormers third person singular

Etymology

The verb dormer comes from the same root as dormitory and dormire 'to sleep', because people added these windows to make attics into sleeping rooms. So to dormer a roof is simply to add dormer windows to give the rooms under the roof more light and space.