Usually means: Restriction on movement during night.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word curfew:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. curfew: Merriam-Webster
  2. curfew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curfew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curfew: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curfew: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curfew, curfew: Wordnik
  7. curfew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curfew: Wiktionary
  9. curfew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curfew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curfew: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curfew, curfew: Dictionary.com
  13. curfew: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. curfew: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Curfew (TV series), Curfew (band), Curfew (single), Curfew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Curfew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. curfew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. curfew: Rhymezone
  19. curfew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. curfew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. curfew: FreeDictionary.org
  22. curfew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. curfew: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. curfew: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Curfew: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curfew: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curfew: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See curfews as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
noun:  The time when such restriction begins.
noun:  A signal indicating this time.
noun:  A fireplace accessory designed to bank a fire by completely covering the embers.
noun:  (historical) 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.
noun:  The evening bell, which continued to be rung in many towns after the regulation itself became obsolete.

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