transom window

1. 1.

   a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door

   Synonymstransomfanlight

   Broaderwindow

Questions about transom window

What does transom window mean?

transom window means "a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door".

What is another word for transom window?

Close synonyms include transom, fanlight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transom window a common word?

transom window is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.