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# cortina

«cortina» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Ford Cortina, a very popular family car in Britain…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a Cortina, Cortinas; a cortina, cortinas); proper noun (Cortina)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) The Ford Cortina, a very popular family car in Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand from 1962 to 1982. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#m1)

2) (a place name) Cortina d'Ampezzo, a ski town in the Dolomite mountains of northern Italy that hosted Winter Olympics in 1956 and, with Milan, in 2026. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#m2)

3) (science, rare) A cobweb-like veil under the cap of some young mushrooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#m3)

4) (Spanish) In Spanish, «cortina» means a curtain; it is not an English word in that sense. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

It is a short honest entry: in English texts it is almost always a name — of an old car seen in stories set in 1970s Britain, or of the Italian ski town in sports news. Phrases: «a Ford Cortina», «Cortina d'Ampezzo».

### examples

- Grandad's first car was a blue Ford Cortina. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#x1)
- The skiers raced down the slopes at Cortina. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#x2)
- The 2026 Winter Olympics were held in Milan and Cortina. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#x3)
- In the old photo, the family stands next to their Cortina. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#x4)
- Some mushrooms have a cortina, a web-like veil under the cap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/#x5)

### note

Usually written with a capital C as a name. Said «kor-TEE-nuh». In Spanish and Italian it means «curtain», which can confuse learners.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cortina» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cortina/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.