dormer
see also: Dormer
Pronunciation
  • (America) IPA: /ˈdɔɹmɚ/
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈdɔːmə(ɹ)/
Etymology 1

From Middle French dormoir, from dormir ("to sleep").

Noun

dormer (plural dormers)

  1. (architecture) A room-like, roofed projection from a sloping roof.
    • 1904 May, Winston Churchill, “The Strange City”, in The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗, book II (Flotsam and Jetsam), page 371 ↗:
      Then we came to a high white wall that surrounded a large garden, and within it was a long, massive building of some beauty and pretension, with a high, latticed belfry and heavy walls and with arched dormers in the sloping roof.
  2. (architecture) Ellipsis of dormer-window.
Translations Etymology 2

From dorm + -er.

Noun

dormer (plural dormers)

  1. (Philippines) A resident of a dormitory.

Dormer
Etymology

Most probably an English habitational surname, but if so the place of origin has not been identified. It could also be a reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Díorma.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)mə(ɹ)/
Proper noun
  1. Surname.



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