closedown
noun
closedown is a noun meaning “The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-L-O-S-E-D-O-W-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of closedown is closedowns.
What does closedown mean?
noun
- 1
The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission and goes off the air for a predetermined period, as used to happen overnight.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce closedown?
Closedown has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of closedown
- closedowns plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is closedown?
Closedown appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Closedown in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Sendeschluss |
| Portuguese | encerramento (da transmissão) |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does closedown come from?
Deverbal from close down.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).