curtains

Meaning of curtains

noun
  1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
  2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
  3. (by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
    He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
  4. (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
  5. (also "final curtain") Death.
  6. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
  7. A flag; an ensign.
verb
  1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
  2. To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
noun
  1. (in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end, death
    "What if a bunch of scuba divers nosed about here?" / "Curtains for them, when our side-scan sonar sees them."
  2. A ring of clear liquid, forming into drops, near the top of a glass of fortified wine; the result of differential evaporation of alcohol and subsequent changes in surface tension; an example of the Marangoni effect

Information about curtains

  • The singular form of curtains is: curtain.
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Hyphenation of curtains

cur-tains

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • curtains is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

curtains synonyms

Meaning :

legs

Anagrams of curtains

saturnic, turacins

Words that rhyme with curtains

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