curtain call

1. 1.

   an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience

   Synonymsbow

   Broaderthanks

Questions about curtain call

What does curtain call mean?

curtain call means "an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience".

What is another word for curtain call?

Close synonyms include bow. 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 call a common word?

curtain call is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.