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Definition: Curfew |
CurfewNoun1. The time that the curfew signal is sounded. 2. A signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions. 3. An order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "curfew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evening | Noun: evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun,Noun: evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cock- shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Curfew |
| English words defined with "curfew": clamp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "curfew": Curfew Bell ♦ Hare-lip. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "curfew": Kerchief. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Join us tomorrow and everyday until the curfew is lifted as we'll be revealing embarrassing secrets about Springfield's other adults (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Curfew. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime García Estrada) | |
Lyrics | Any trick that diss gets a curfew (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Clever | Happy laughter and family voices in the home will keep more kids off the streets at night than the strictest curfew. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Curfew Breakers (1957) Shall Curfew Ring Tonight? (1914) Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1912) Why Curfew Did Not Ring Last Night (1900) Curfew (1989) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Curfew must not ring tonight, or the untold grievance of an untolled church bell. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The curfew hour. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Tanzania | The curfew and roadblocks did not continue after January. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The police broke up the demonstration with force and imposed a curfew on the city. (references) | |
Tanzania | After the 2000 elections, and again after the January 27 demonstrations, a curfew was imposed on Wete of Pemba. (references) | |
Economic History | Kyrgyzstan | Violent confrontations ensued, and a state of emergency and curfew were introduced. (references) |
Zimbabwe | In 1983-84, the government declared a curfew in areas of Matabeleland and sent in the army in an attempt to suppress dissidents. (references) | |
Burundi | He declared himself president of a transitional republic, even as he suspended the National Assembly, banned opposition groups, and imposed a nationwide curfew. (references) | |
Human Rights | Papua New Guinea | The Government imposed a nighttime curfew in Port Moresby for the following 2 months. (references) |
Indonesia | The violence decreased in Ambon in late January 2000 and this year, after security forces began enforcing a curfew and disarming civilians. (references) | |
India | An indefinite curfew was imposed in Imphal, and the police were ordered to shoot anyone found violating the curfew, although there were no instance of persons being shot for this reason. (references) | |
Minorities | Ghana | However, police and army reinforcements restored order within 48 hours and instituted a strict curfew. (references) |
Travel | Ecuador | Since 1999, several U.S. government employees and private U.S. citizens have been victimized in the Mariscal Sucre district, prompting the U.S. Embassy to put certain bars off-limits and to declare a nighttime curfew in the area for its employees. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Curfew" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.94% of the time. "Curfew" is used about 229 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.94% | 222 | 20,237 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.62% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 229 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "curfew": impose a curfew. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "curfew": curfew-knoll. | |
Ending with "curfew": non-curfew, post-curfew. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "curfew"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | aandklok. (various references) | |
Albanian | shenjë errësimi, orë e mbylljes brenda. (various references) | |
Arabic | منع التجول, ناقوس الغروب, حظر التجول. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | вечерна камбана, полицейски час. (various references) | |
Chinese | 宵禁. (various references) | |
Czech | zákaz vycházení, policejní hodina. (various references) | |
Dutch | avondklok. (various references) | |
Esperanto | malpermesita elirtempo. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقررات حکومت نظامی درشب . (various references) | |
French | couvre-feu. (various references) | |
German | Abendglocke. (various references) | |
Greek | συσκότιση (blackout, darkening, obfuscation), εσπερινή κωδωνοκρουσία, απαγόρευση κυκλοφορίας, απαγόρευση τησ κυκλοφορίασ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kijárási tilalom, takarodó (last post, recall, retreat, sack time, taps, tattoo). (various references) | |
Indonesian | jam malam. (various references) | |
Italian | coprifuoco. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 門限 (closing time, lockup). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | も"'" (closing time, lockup). (various references) | |
Korean | 야간외출금지. (various references) | |
Manx | clag mooghee. (various references) | |
Norwegian | portforbud. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | urfewcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | toque de recolher (retreat, tattoo). (various references) | |
Romanian | clopot de alarmã (tocsin), stare de asediu, semnal care interzice circulaţia oamenilor. (various references) | |
Russian | комендантский час. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | policijski čas. (various references) | |
Spanish | toque de queda. (various references) | |
Swedish | utegångsförbud, aftonringning. (various references) | |
Turkish | yat borusu (retreat, tap), sokağa çıkma yasağı, karatma zamanı, karartma zili. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | комендантська година. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuông báo giờ tắt lửa, lệnh giới nghiêm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curfew": curfews. (additional references) | |
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"Curfew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carfew, cerfew, curfe, curiew, cursew. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "curfew" (pronounced ker"fyuw) |
| 3 | -f y uw | grandnephew, nephew. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-r-u-w" | |
-2 letters: crew, cure, curf, ecru. | |
-3 letters: cue, cur, ecu, fer, feu, few, fur, rec, ref, rue. | |
-4 letters: ef, er, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-r-u-w" | |
+1 letter: curfews. | |
+2 letters: wreckful. | |
+5 letters: cauliflower, counterflow. | |
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