Iron Curtain

USAGE NOTE
This noun must be preceded by the definite article.
Iron Curtain
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
noun
a. la cortina de hierro
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(F)
Regionalism used in Latin America: all the countries in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Does not include Spain.
(Latin America)
Throughout the cold war, the world was divided by the Iron Curtain.Durante la gerra fría, el mundo estuvo dividido por la cortina de hierro.
b. el telón de acero
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(M)
Regionalism used in Spain
(Spain)
East Germany was separated from West Germany by the Iron Curtain.Alemania del este estaba separada de Alemania del oeste por el telón de acero.
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