curtain

1. 1.

   provide with drapery

   “curtain the bedrooms”

   Broadersupply

Other forms of curtain

plural

curtains·

past tense

curtained·

present participle

curtaining·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about curtain

What does curtain mean?

curtain means "hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in curtain?

curtain has 2 syllables: cur-tain. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkɝtən/.

What is another word for curtain?

Close synonyms include drape, drapery, mantle, pall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is curtain a common word?

curtain is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.