Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun iron_curtain

1 sense of iron curtain

Sense 1
iron curtain -- (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)
       => ideological barrier -- (a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies)