<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc.</li><li>a movable or folding screen used for similar purposes.</li><li>a window shade.</li><li>a set of hanging drapery for concealing all or part of the stage or set from the view of the audience.</li><li>the act or time of raising or opening a curtain at the start of a performance.</li><li>the end of a scene or act indicated by the closing or falling of a curtain.</li><li>an effect, line, or plot solution at the conclusion of a performance.</li><li>music signaling the end of a radio or television performance.</li><li>anything that shuts off, covers, or conceals: a curtain of artillery fire.</li><li>a relatively flat or featureless extent of wall between two pavilions or the like.</li><li>the part of a wall or rampart connecting two bastions, towers, or the like.</li><li>the end; death, especially by violence: It looked like curtains for another mobster.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to provide, shut off, conceal, or adorn with, or as if with, a curtain.</li></ul>