curtain

curtain is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
2. noun. That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
3. noun. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
4. noun. A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
5. transitive verb. To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
6. noun. hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

   Synonyms: drape, drapery, mantle, pall

7. noun. any barrier to communication or vision

   "a curtain of secrecy"

   "a curtain of trees"

8. verb. provide with drapery

   "curtain the bedrooms"

Synonyms

drape, drapery, mantle, pall

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in curtain:

turacin, turcian

Common word forms

curtains, curtained, curtaining, curtainless

Words from these letters

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