Usually means: Fabric hanging, covers windows, doors.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word curtain:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. curtain: Merriam-Webster
  2. curtain, the curtain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curtain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. curtain, the curtain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. curtain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Curtain, curtain: Wordnik
  7. curtain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. curtain: Wiktionary
  9. curtain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. curtain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. curtain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Curtain, curtain: Dictionary.com
  13. curtain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. curtain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Curtain (disambiguation), Curtain (film), Curtain (novel), Curtain, The Curtain (essay), The Curtain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Curtain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. curtain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. curtain: Rhymezone
  19. curtain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. curtain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Curtain, Curtain: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. curtain: FreeDictionary.org
  23. curtain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. curtain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. curtain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. curtain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CURTAIN: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. curtain: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curtain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. curtain: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. curtain: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Curtain: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. curtain: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Curtain: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  4. Curtain: Dictionary of Military Architecture
  5. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See curtained as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
noun:  A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
noun:  (theater, by extension) The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
noun:  (fortifications) The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
noun:  (euphemistic, also "final curtain", sometimes in the plural) Death.
noun:  (architecture) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
noun:  (obsolete, derogatory) A flag; an ensign.
noun:  The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
verb:  (transitive) To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.

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