'iron curtain' definitions:
Definition of 'iron curtain'
(from WordNet)
noun
An impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
Synonyms of 'iron curtain'
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- arch dam,
- backstop,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- bar,
- barrage,
- barrier,
- barrier of secrecy,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- Berlin wall,
- blackout,
- Bolshevism,
- boom,
- border,
- border ground,
- borderland,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- Castroism,
- censorship,
- cofferdam,
- communism,
- Communist Information Bureau,
- Communist Party,
- curtain,
- dam,
- defense,
- democratic centralism,
- dialectical materialism,
- dike,
- ditch,
- earthwork,
- embankment,
- fence,
- frontier,
- frontier post,
- gate,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- hush-up,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- ironbound security,
- jam,
- jetty,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- logjam,
- Maoism,
- march,
- marches,
- marchland,
- Marxian socialism,
- Marxism,
- Marxism-Leninism,
- milldam,
- moat,
- mole,
- mound,
- oath of secrecy,
- official secrecy,
- outpost,
- outskirts,
- pall,
- parapet,
- Pillars of Hercules,
- portcullis,
- rampart,
- repression,
- revisionism,
- roadblock,
- rock-fill dam,
- seal of secrecy,
- seawall,
- security,
- shutter dam,
- smothering,
- Stalinism,
- stifling,
- stone wall,
- suppression,
- three-mile limit,
- Titoism,
- Trotskyism,
- twelve-mile limit,
- veil,
- veil of secrecy,
- wall,
- weir,
- wicket dam,
- work,
- wraps