Definitions for curtain

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curtain cur·tain

Spelling: [kur-tn]

IPA: /ˈkɜr tn/

Curtain is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 202 anagrams from letters in curtain (acinrtu).

Definitions for curtain

noun

1. a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.
2. a movable or folding screen used for similar purposes.
3. Chiefly New England. a window shade.
4. Theater. a set of hanging drapery for concealing all or part of the stage or set from the view of the audience. the act or time of raising or opening a curtain at the start of a performance: the end of a scene or act indicated by the closing or falling of a curtain: an effect, line, or plot solution at the conclusion of a performance: music signaling the end of a radio or television performance. (used as a direction in a script of a play to indicate that a scene or act is concluded.)
5. anything that shuts off, covers, or conceals:
6. Architecture. a relatively flat or featureless extent of wall between two pavilions or the like.
7. Fortification. the part of a wall or rampart connecting two bastions, towers, or the like.
8. curtains, Slang. the end; death, especially by violence:

Idioms

1. draw the curtain on / over, to bring to a close: to keep secret.
2. lift the curtain on, to commence; start. to make known or public; disclose:

verb (used with object)

1. to provide, shut off, conceal, or adorn with, or as if with, a curtain.

Origin of curtain

1250-1300; Middle English co(u)rtine Anglo-French, Old French Late Latin cortīna, probably equivalent to co(ho)rt- (stem of cohors; see court) + -īna Examples for curtain

As she spoke, Geta lifted the curtain, and Philothea instantly obeyed the signal.

So, what might have occurred on the other side of the curtain?

The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall.

From behind a curtain, Trudeau is politely coaching the actors through the scene, encouraging them to go bigger.

Just then the curtain rose again, and the play of the "Serious Family," commenced.

curtain rises on second act, showing the Hotel Fonseca, at Paris.

The bell had rung—the curtain was up and the performances were about to begin.

After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem.

At length the curtain fell, and the evening's performance was over.

“It was like a curtain was beginning to be opened,” says Noor, who was surprised by the blunt request.