window seat
noun
1
: a seat built into a window recess
2
: a seat next to a window (as in a bus or airplane)
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Use it to support your head and neck from the window seat to the aisle—and even use it as lumbar support during particularly long flights after you’re done resting up.
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Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
The study tracked movements in the economy cabin during transcontinental flights and found that passengers in window seats were far less likely to get up during flights, with only about 40% doing so compared with 80% of those in aisle seats.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
Another man on a busy flight meanwhile sparked fury after sharing what the woman sat in the window seat next to him did.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
While one of the sisters booked a window seat on the plane, the other booked the aisle seat in the same row.
—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
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Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2025
The study tracked movements in the economy cabin during transcontinental flights and found that passengers in window seats were far less likely to get up during flights, with only about 40% doing so compared with 80% of those in aisle seats.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2025
Another man on a busy flight meanwhile sparked fury after sharing what the woman sat in the window seat next to him did.
—Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
While one of the sisters booked a window seat on the plane, the other booked the aisle seat in the same row.
—Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for window seat
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“Window seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/window%20seat. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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