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fanlight

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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fan·light /ˈfænlaɪt/ noun [countable]  1. especially British EnglishDHH a small window above a door or a larger window 〔门或大窗上方的〕楣窗,气窗 SYN American English transom2. American EnglishDHH a window shaped like a half-circle 扇形窗
Examples from the Corpus
fanlightAll the doors have fanlights even though they are in the basement.Robert would not have said that the fanlight was almost obliterated with bird droppings.Dust floated in the beams of light that flooded through the fanlight over the front door.Well, it's not entirely dark ... there's a lamp outside that shines through the fanlight.It looked as if it had only two storeys, but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof.She stood directly under the fanlight in the middle of the room.It was small but typically eighteenth-century in origin, with an Adam doorway and spider web fanlight.
fan·light nounChineseSyllable
Corpus door small window a above a or


fanlight
fanlight /ˈfænlaɪt/ noun [countable]
1. especially British English a small window above a door or a larger window
   SYN  transom American English
2. American English a window shaped like a half-circle


fan·lightBrE /ˈfænlaɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈfænlaɪt/ 🔊 (NAmE also tran·som) nouna small window above a door or another window 气窗(门或窗上方的小窗)