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window seat

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A window seat is the plane seat with the view of the clouds. Ask for a window seat, a window seat over the wing, book the window seat.

The trade is real: the window seat gives you the view and a wall to lean on, and the aisle gives you freedom to get out. The windows are rounded because square corners concentrate stress, which cost lives before it was understood.

Definitions of window seat

  1. 1phrasewindow seatThe seat next to the window on an aircraft.B1

    “I always book a window seat so I can watch the clouds during the flight.”

window seat is a seat.

Where it comes from

Window plus seat. The compound names the seat by what it sits beside.

From window + seat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Travel & Transport, Airport & Flying

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