fanlight

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a small window above a door or another window, traditionally semicircular with fan-shaped glazing bars

   A faint glow from the fanlight showed that someone was still awake upstairs.

2. 2
   noun

   a hinged window or roof light used to admit daylight or ventilation

   They opened the fanlight to let warm air escape from the room.

A compound of fan and light in the older sense "window or opening that admits light." The name refers to the radiating glazing bars of the traditional semicircular window above a doorway.

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