curtaincurtain /ˈkɚt˺n/ ●●● S3 noun [countable] 1
a piece of hanging cloth that can be pulled across to cover a window, divide a room, etc.: a shower curtainclose/draw/pull the curtains We always close the curtains in the evening.2eng. lang. arts a sheet of heavy material that can be made to come down across the front of the stage in a theater: I was shaking as the curtain went up.3a thick layer of something that stops anything behind it from being seen: a curtain of fog4draw/bring down/lower etc. the curtain on something to do something that stops or ends something else: The decision brought down the curtain on a 30-year career.5the curtain falls (on something) if the curtain falls on an event or period of history, it ends6the final curtain a)eng. lang. arts the time when the curtain goes down at the end of a performance in a theater b)the end of something: the final curtain of his career7be curtains for somebody/something informal used to say that someone will die or be in a lot of trouble, or that something will end: After 75 years, it’s curtains for the town’s movie theater. [Origin: 1200–1300 Old French curtine, from Late Latin cortina, from Latin cohors enclosure, court]
a piece of hanging cloth that can be pulled across to cover a window, divide a room, etc.: a shower curtainclose/draw/pull the curtains We always close the curtains in the evening.2eng. lang. arts a sheet of heavy material that can be made to come down across the front of the stage in a theater: I was shaking as the curtain went up.3a thick layer of something that stops anything behind it from being seen: a curtain of fog4draw/bring down/lower etc. the curtain on something to do something that stops or ends something else: The decision brought down the curtain on a 30-year career.5the curtain falls (on something) if the curtain falls on an event or period of history, it ends6the final curtain a)eng. lang. arts the time when the curtain goes down at the end of a performance in a theater b)the end of something: the final curtain of his career7be curtains for somebody/something informal used to say that someone will die or be in a lot of trouble, or that something will end: After 75 years, it’s curtains for the town’s movie theater. [Origin: 1200–1300 Old French curtine, from Late Latin cortina, from Latin cohors enclosure, court]