window seat

noun

1. a seat built beneath the sill of a recessed or other window.

2. a bench having two arms and no back.

window seat

noun

1. a seat below a window, esp in a bay window

2. a seat beside a window in a bus, train, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of window seat¹

First recorded in 1745–55

Example Sentences

From a window seat I’d watch the platform glide away as vendors shoved gossip magazines through the bars.

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Penelope thought of the window seats at the Swanburne Academy, which were so full of embroidered pillows that one could scarcely find a place to sit and read.

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Once aboard, he secured a window seat so he could continue to wave many highly theatrical farewells to Penelope and the children.

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He urges athletes to choose window seats in the middle of the aircraft, away from the most-trafficked areas—the front, where everyone enters, and the rear, near the galley and the lavatories.

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Passengers in window seats board first, followed by those in middle seats and aisles, starting in the back of the plane.

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