Associations to the word «Backdrop»

Wiktionary

BACKDROP, noun. A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
BACKDROP, noun. The setting or background of a historical event.
BACKDROP, verb. (transitive) To serve as a backdrop for.

Dictionary definition

BACKDROP, noun. Scenery hung at back of stage.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne