curfew
Meaning of curfew
noun
- Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
- The time when such restriction begins.
- A signal indicating this time.
- A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
- A regulation in feudal Europe by which fires had to be covered up or put out at a certain fixed time in the evening, marked by the ringing of an evening bell.
- The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.
Information about curfew
- It is a name.
- The plural form of curfew is: curfews.
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Hyphenation of curfew
cur-few
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- curfew is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of curfew
- French: couvre-feu
- Italian: coprifuoco
- Spanish: cubrefuego
- German: Zapfenstreich
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