"dormer" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈdɔɹmɚ/ [General-American], /ˈdɔːmə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: dormers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle French dormoir (“sleeping room”), from dormir (“to sleep”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|frm|dormoir||sleeping room}} Middle French dormoir (“sleeping room”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dormer (plural dormers)
  1. (architecture) A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof. Categories (topical): Architecture Translations (roofed projection): llucana [feminine] (Catalan), vikýř (Czech), kvist [common-gender] (Danish), dakkapel [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), kvistur [masculine] (Faroese), kattolyhty (Finnish), Dachgaube [feminine] (German), kvistur [masculine] (Icelandic), abbaìno (Italian), ark [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kvist [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ark [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kvist [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    Sense id: en-dormer-en-noun-b101cvxK Categories (other): Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Faroese translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 63 37 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Faroese translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 68 32 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 72 28 Topics: architecture Disambiguation of 'roofed projection': 100 0
  2. (architecture) Ellipsis of dormer-window.. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: dormer-window Categories (topical): Architecture
    Sense id: en-dormer-en-noun-8agOQwyS Topics: architecture
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dormer window
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈdɔɹmɚ/ [General-American], /ˈdɔːmə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation] Forms: dormers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ) Etymology: dorm + -er Etymology templates: {{af|en|dorm|-er|id2=occupation}} dorm + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} dormer (plural dormers)
  1. (Philippines) A resident of a dormitory. Tags: Philippines
    Sense id: en-dormer-en-noun-3JnsbqMj Categories (other): Philippine English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (occupation) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 8 73 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (occupation): 26 14 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.