shutters

nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,884 of 15,258neutral

Shutters are hinged panels closed over a window at night. Close the shutters, wooden shutters, shutters banging.

They are external in hot and stormy countries, where they keep out sun and weather, and internal and largely decorative in Britain — the same word for two rather different fittings. Shop shutters are the rolling steel kind. In a camera, the shutter is what times the exposure. Note shut, from which the whole family comes.

Definitions of shutters

1nounshuttersHinged panels closed over a window.B1+
“The wind banged the loose shutters against the wall all night.”

shutters is a window covering.

Where it comes from

shutter comes from shut + -er. From shut + -er. Compare shuttle.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Buildings & Architecture

Practise this word

shutters in the wild

Hurricane shutters are used to prevent windows from being broken by flying objects during a storm.
Hurricane shutter
The shutters are affixed to the outside of the building with screws, hurricane clips, or a track system.
Hurricane shutter
The term window shutter includes both interior shutters, used on the inside of a house or building, and exterior shutters, used on the outside of a structure.
Window shutter
On some styles of buildings it is common to have shutters to cover the doors as well as the windows.
Window shutter
The company began operation in 1946, with small-scale production of photographic shutters; these are still one of the company's best-known products.
Nidec Copal Corporation

1 / 2

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

← Vocabulary