Casement Meaning
/ˈkeɪs/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA window sash that is hinged on the side.
nounA window having such sashes; a casement window.ᵂᵖ
Sentence Examples
Don’t you have the blue casement?
He opened the casement to let in the fresh air.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He opened the ____ window wide to let in the fresh morning breeze.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He opened the large ____ window to let in some fresh morning air.
Word Origin & History
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Asmuint (“son of Asmund”), a personal name derived from Old Norse Asmundr, which is composed by the elements áss (“god”) + mundr (“protection”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 7:6–7:
"Passing through Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a casement violently opened just over my head, and a woman gave three frightful screeches, and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!’ in a most inimitable tone, and which struck me with horror and a chillness in my very blood."
— 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year:
"Some slight noise had awakened Francesca, and opening her casement, she looked through the thick and misty air, and saw him riding slowly over the heath."
— 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 229:
"The street-lamps always burn; but scarce a casement / In house or palace front from roof to basement / Doth glow or gleam athwart the mirk air cast."
— 1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night:
"The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door."
— 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He opened the ____ window wide to let in the fresh morning breeze.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He opened the large ____ window to let in some fresh morning air.