shutters
Meaning of shutters
plural noun
- each of a pair of hinged panels fixed inside or outside a window that can be closed for security or privacy or to keep out the light.
he threw open the shutters to let in air and light
painted wooden shutters
- a device that opens and closes to expose the film in a camera.
- the blind enclosing the swell box in an organ, used for controlling the volume of sound.
- close the shutters of (a window or building).
the windows were shuttered against the afternoon heat
Information about shutters
- The singular form of shutters is: shutter.
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Hyphenation of shutters
shut-ters
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- shutters is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
shutters synonyms
Meaning a fixed or movable upright partition used to divide a room, give shelter from draughts, heat, or light, or to provide concealment or privacy:
Meaning a screen for a window, especially one on a roller or made of slats:
Meaning a piece of material suspended at the top to form a screen, typically movable sideways along a rail and found as one of a pair at a window:
Meaning comparative darkness and coolness caused by shelter from direct sunlight:
Meaning a sheet of canvas or other material stretched on a frame and used to keep the sun or rain off a shop window, doorway, or ship's deck:
Meaning an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, especially a throne or bed:
Meaning a blind or shutter made of a row of angled slats:
Meaning a set of window shutters or external blinds incorporating light horizontal movable slats:
Words that rhyme with shutters
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