Usually means: Misfortune passed through generations or events.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word the curse:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. the curse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. the curse: Merriam-Webster
  3. the curse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. the curse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. the curse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. the curse: Dictionary.com
  7. The Curse (Angel comic), The Curse (Arthur C Clarke short story), The Curse (Atreyu album), The Curse (Omen album), The Curse (disambiguation), The Curse (film), The Curse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. the curse, The Curse: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Definitions from Wikipedia (The Curse)

noun:  the second studio album by American metalcore band Atreyu.
noun:  a trade paperback collecting comic stories based on the Angel television series.
noun:  "The Curse" (also called "Nightfall") is a postapocalyptic short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1946.Page at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
noun:  (also known internationally as The Farm) a 1987 American science-fiction horror film directed by David Keith in his directorial debut, and based on the short story "The Colour Out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft.
noun:  the third studio album by American heavy metal band Omen.
noun:  a 1924 Austrian drama film directed by Robert Land and starring Lilian Harvey, Oscar Beregi and Albert Heine.
noun:  a 1988 short story by Andre Dubus.
noun:  an American satirical black comedy thriller television series created and written by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, and starring Emma Stone, Fielder, and Safdie.
noun:  a 1990 role-playing game adventure for Call of Cthulhu published by ADP Systems.
noun:  a British comedy crime drama series which is broadcast on Channel 4.
noun:  "The Curse" is the fourth episode of the second season of the American mockumentary comedy horror television series What We Do in the Shadows, set in the franchise of the same name.
noun:  The Curse pentalogy is a horror series of five originally unconnected films that were retitled to be part of a supernatural franchise for the American home video market.

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