picture window

noun

1. a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.

picture window

noun

1. a large window having a single pane of glass, usually placed so that it overlooks a view

Word History and Origins

Origin of picture window¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

Tall, pale curtains on the picture window instead of the pilled yellow ones where I’d skulk during hide-and-seek.

From Vox

Through a picture window he could see the huge modernist sculpture in the plaza, normally a gleaming silver, now shrouded in dust and debris.

From Washington Post

Every day, in the quiet moments at home, I stare out a living-room picture window, waiting and wondering, gazing at people roaming the neighborhood in small clusters and staying politely apart.

From Washington Post

He stood up and stepped to the picture window that looks out over the grassy courtyard separating the two buildings.

From The Daily Beast

Turning to Commission Exhibit 431, the picture window is shown there, is it not?

From Project Gutenberg

I am now in the southeast bedroom of Mrs. Paine's home, looking out the picture window facing onto Fifth Avenue.

From Project Gutenberg

The picture window facing on Fifth Street is—why don't you recite it, Mr. Howlett?

From Project Gutenberg

That particular bedroom opens by window, a large picture window onto West Fifth Street.

From Project Gutenberg

These are unlike the southeast bedroom in that neither of these windows is a picture window.

From Project Gutenberg