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Meaning of "shop window" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHOP WINDOW

shop window  [ʃɒp ˈwɪndəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHOP WINDOW

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shop window is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHOP WINDOW MEAN IN ENGLISH?

shop window

Display window

A display window, most commonly called shop window or store window, is a window in a shop displaying items for sale or otherwise designed to attract customers to the store. Usually, the term refers to larger windows in the front façade of the shop. The first display windows in shops were installed in the late 18th century in London, where levels of conspicuous consumption were growing rapidly. Retailer Francis Place was one of the first to experiment with this new retailing method at his tailoring establishment in Charing Cross, where he fitted the shop-front with large plate glass windows. Although this was condemned by many, he defended his practice in his memoirs, claiming that he: sold from the window more goods...than paid journeymen's wages and the expenses of housekeeping. Display windows at boutiques usually have dressed-up mannequins in them. Putting a window display of merchandise in a store's window is called "window dressing", which is also used to describe the items displayed themselves. As a figure of speech, "window dressing" means something done to make a better impression, and sometimes implies something dishonest or deceptive.

Definition of shop window in the English dictionary

The definition of shop window in the dictionary is a window of a shop, where goods are put on display.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHOP WINDOW


bandeau
ˈbændəʊ
Belmondo
bɛlˈmɒndəʊ
Brando
ˈbrændəʊ
commando
kəˈmɑːndəʊ
condo
ˈkɒndəʊ
crescendo
krɪˈʃɛndəʊ
Hondo
ˈhɒndəʊ
kendo
ˈkɛndəʊ
kondo
ˈkɒndəʊ
mondo
ˈmɒndəʊ
multiwindow
ˌmʌltɪˈwɪndəʊ
Ondo
ˈɒndəʊ
Orlando
ɔːˈlændəʊ
parlando
pɑːˈlændəʊ
perdendo
peəˈdendəʊ
rondo
ˈrɒndəʊ
saltando
sælˈtændəʊ
secondo
sɛˈkɒndəʊ
tondo
ˈtɒndəʊ
window
ˈwɪndəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHOP WINDOW

shop
shop around
shop assistant
shop floor
shop front
shop steward
shopaholic
shopaholism
shopboard
shopbot
shopboy
shopbreaker
shopbreaking
shopfitter
shopful
shopgirl
shophar
shophroth
shopkeeper
shopkeeping

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHOP WINDOW

bay window
bow window
casement window
display window
dormer window
double window
drive-up window
endow
launch window
out of the window
picture window
plate-glass window
quarter window
rear window
rose window
sash window
show window
stained glass window
storm window
transfer window
weather window

Synonyms and antonyms of shop window in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shop window» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHOP WINDOW

Find out the translation of shop window to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shop window from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shop window» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

商店橱窗
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

escaparate
570 millions of speakers

English

shop window
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दुकान की खिड़की
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وَاجِهَةُ عَرْض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

витрина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vitrina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দোকানের উইন্ডো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

vitrine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

tingkap kedai
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schaufenster
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ショーウィンドウ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상점 진열장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jendhela toko
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tủ kính bày hàng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடை ஜன்னல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दुकानाची खिडकी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

vitrin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vetrina
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

witryna sklepowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вітрина
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

vitrină
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βιτρίνα καταστήματος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

winkel venster
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skyltfönster
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

butikkvindu
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shop window

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOP WINDOW»

The term «shop window» is regularly used and occupies the 58.014 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHOP WINDOW» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shop window» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shop window» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shop window

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2 QUOTES WITH «SHOP WINDOW»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shop window.
1
Jeremy Irons
Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.
2
Paul McCartney
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHOP WINDOW»

Discover the use of shop window in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shop window and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The New Cultural Climate in Turkey: Living in a Shop Window
Comprising a sophisticated review of the history, culture and politics of Turkey since the 1980 military coup, this is the only book in English that analyzes the cultural aspects of modern Turkey in order to explore its place within global ...
Nurdan Gurbilek, 2011
2
Forefront: the culture of shop window design
Forefront features displays by such designers as Simon Doonan, David Hoey, John Field, Janet Wardley, and Kozo Fujimoto, in venues including Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, Gucci, Herm s, Moschino, Shreve, Crump & Low, and Vin on.
Shonquis Moreno, 2005
3
Life's Shop Window
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Victoria Cross, 2010
4
Window Shopping: Cinema and the Postmodern
From the middle of the nineteenth century, as if in a historical relay of looks, the shop window succeeded the mirror as a site of identity construction, and then — gradually — the shop window was displaced and incorporated by the cinema ...
Anne Friedberg, 1993
5
Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009: 12th IFIP TC 13 ...
To construct an elaborate view on the shop window context we conducted field studies in three downtown shopping centers and two shopping malls in Europe and United States. During these studies we observed and interviewed shoppers  ...
Tom Gross, Jan Gulliksen, Paula Kotzé, 2009
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The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the ...
Shop Windows In a note from Neuilly in 1913, Duchamp also expressed himself in a suggestive manner on "The exigency of the shop window." The appeal exerted by an object in a shop window is described by him in sexual terms: " When one ...
‎1999
7
Proceedings of 2012 3rd International Asia Conference on ...
With the birth of shop window design industry, the brand new visual merchandising method greatly boosted the retail sale of the time. All businesses invested significantly in shop window construction and design. As the “Four Leading ...
Runliang Dou, 2013
8
Ambient Intelligence: European Conference, AmI 2008, ...
The user presses a button to create a new scene for the shop window. First he draws the stage in front of the shop window, then he associates a customer actor and shop window device prop to this stage. He then sets the shop window to ...
Emile H.L. Aarts, James L. Crowley, Heinz Gerhäuser, 2008
9
How to sell in a store. Manual for clothing and footwear
Although a shop window is a rigid space, well defined and made up of only a few elements – two lateral walls, a base, a backdrop and a ceiling – it can transmit very suggestive sensations thanks to the decorative elements, furnishing, lighting  ...
Vittorio Galgano, 2006
10
Legal Aspects of Business
The piece in the shop window may be only for display. The shop window could have been aesthetically arranged, and removing one item from it may spoil its look. A shopkeeper would never intend this. Most customers would also say the ...
Akhileshwar Pathak, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHOP WINDOW»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shop window is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bus crashes through Bournemouth shop window
A bus has ploughed through a shop window in Bournemouth after a crash involving a car. It happened at the junction of Alma Road and Heron Court Road in the ... «BBC News, Jun 15»
2
Porsche Smashes Through Coffee Shop Window
Porsche Smashes Through Coffee Shop Window. Two people are temporarily trapped inside a Caffe Nero shop in a Buckinghamshire village after a car crashes ... «Sky News, May 15»
3
Suspected shoplifter hospitalised after falling 20ft from City of …
A suspected shoplifter who fell from a second-storey shop window in front of shocked London workers, has been hospitalised with life-threatening injuries. «The Independent, Apr 15»
4
'Racist' cupcakes banned from French shop window
The administrative court in Nice on Thursday ordered they be removed from the shop`s window display, though -- finding no "malicious will" on the part of the ... «Al-Arabiya, Mar 15»
5
Woman survives car bonnet pizza shop crash
Woman survives car bonnet pizza shop crash ... woman in Colorado has escaped unscathed after being pushed through a pizza shop window on a car bonnet. «BBC News, Mar 15»
6
Journalist murdered in Istanbul over snowball that hit shop window
Despite the group's attempts to call the man down, he went back to his shop, returning with a baseball bat. After the group successfully took the bat from him, ... «Hurriyet Daily News, Feb 15»
7
CRUK trials contactless giving through the charity shop window
Cancer Research UK is introducing contactless giving at four of its charity shops to enable passers-by to make donations through the window at any time of the ... «UK Fundraising, Jan 15»
8
Shop window leg injury victim named
Police were advised by the hospital and subsequent inquiries established that his leg had gone through the window of the former Colour Plus store in Vanguard ... «TVNZ, Jan 15»
9
BREAKING NEWS: Reports of chainsaw attack on shop window
BREAKING NEWS: Reports of chainsaw attack on shop window ... Bridlington Free Press has recieved reports of an alleged attack on a shop in the town centre. «Bridlington Today, Nov 14»
10
Bin lorry crashes into shop window in Dingle
The truck hit a number of cars on the street before crashing into the window of The Woollen Store. Three people whose cars were hit by the bin lorry were treated ... «RTE.ie, Jul 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Shop window [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/shop-window>. Apr 2024 ».
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