Definitions for shutters

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shutters shut·ter

Spelling: [shuht-er]

IPA: /ˈʃʌt ər/

Shutters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 193 anagrams from letters in shutters (ehrssttu).

Definitions for shutters

noun

1. a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
2. a movable cover, slide, etc., for an opening.
3. a person or thing that shuts.
4. Photography. a mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. to close or provide with shutters:
2. to close (a store or business operations) for the day or permanently.

verb (used without object)

1. to close or close down:

Origin of shutters

First recorded in 1535-45; shut + -er¹

Examples for shutters

Physician had opened the shutters of one window while waiting, that he might see the light.

It was ten minutes past six, sir, and I was opening the shutters.

But all the doors and shutters were closed and no smoke rose from any chimney.

The Venetian shutters often had to be lowered in the summer to attenuate the great heat.

Just taking the shutters down and re-entering the world of daylight was a relief in itself.

The shutters were thrown athwart the reflected beam of sunlight.

Greengrass told the quartet they had the parts at shutters Hotel in Santa Monica.

To be let light your fire myself every morning, and open your shutters, dear.

On the shutters of a cosmetics store someone has written, “Pepper spray is good for the skin.”

But at the house to the right and the house to the left, there are broken windows and shutters.