Synonyms for iron curtain
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for iron curtain Other synonyms for the word iron curtain
- blue pencil
- bowdlerization
- censorship
- control
- dead air
- death
- dumbness
- forbidding
- hush
- hush up
- hush-hush
- inarticulateness
- infringing on rights
- iron curtain
- laconism
- muteness
- noiselessness
- quiescence
- quietness
- quietude
- quietus
- reserve
- saturninity
- sleep
- soundlessness
- speechlessness
- still
- sulk
- sullenness
- taciturnity
- thought control
- uncommunicativeness
- wordlessness
Définition of iron curtain
Origin :- in reference to the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe, famously coined by Winston Churchill March 5, 1946, in speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, but it had been used earlier in this context (e.g. by U.S. bureaucrat Allen W. Dulles at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dec. 3, 1945). The figurative sense of "impenetrable barrier" is attested from 1819, and the specific sense of "barrier at the edge of the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union" is recorded from 1920. During World War II, Goebbels used it in German (ein eiserner Vorhang) in the same sense. Its popular use in the U.S. dates from Churchill's speech.
- As in silence : noun absence of sound, speech
- As in censorship : noun forbiddance; ban
- As in noiselessness : noun silence
- As in quietness : noun silence
- As in soundlessness : noun silence
- As in speechlessness : noun silence
- For that reason we can't get anything we want from the Iron Curtain people.
- Extract from : « The Invaders » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- He had attended to a new curiosity on the part of another official of the County Council about the iron curtain.
- Extract from : « The Regent » by E. Arnold Bennett
- They deserved to have the iron curtain come down on them, and flatten them out like black-beetles, the wind-bags!
- Extract from : « The Bill-Toppers » by Andre Castaigne
- Even your friends inside the Iron Curtain know that the only way to conquer a country is to smash it down to savagery.
- Extract from : « The Invaders » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- The Kremlin walls, the very symbol of the iron curtain, were scarcely six inches high!
- Extract from : « The Image and the Likeness » by John Scott Campbell
- Then she caught me peeking and clamped down a mind screen that made the old so-called "Iron Curtain" resemble a rusty sieve.
- Extract from : « The Big Fix » by George Oliver Smith
- And behind the Iron Curtain the Soviet rule of force has created growing political and economic stresses in the satellite nations.
- Extract from : « State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman » by Harry S. Truman
- During the coming year we must not forget the suffering of the people who live behind the Iron Curtain.
- Extract from : « State of the Union Addresses of Harry S. Truman » by Harry S. Truman
- For a moment let us look into this so seeming-piteous a one of ours, on which soon the iron curtain is resonantly to fall.
- Extract from : « The Serf » by Guy Thorne
- When the iron curtain fell, twelve policemen took the place of the usual attendants.
- Extract from : « The Three Eyes » by Maurice Leblanc
Antonyms for iron curtain
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