SHOP WINDOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shop window mean? 

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

1. a window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHOP WINDOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A window of a store facing onto the street; used to display merchandise for sale in the store

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

display window; shop window; shopwindow; show window

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

window (a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air)

Holonyms ("shop window" is a part of...):

shopfront; storefront (the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows)

 Context examples 

Here, on the left hand, there stands a shop window filled with photographs of the celebrities and beauties of the day.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One of the latter knocked off the man’s hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do you know, I saw the prettiest hat you can imagine, in a shop window in Milsom Street just now—very like yours, only with coquelicot ribbons instead of green; I quite longed for it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Their eyes were immediately wandering up in the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)