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B'wood

B'wood is the abbreviation of Bollywood.

Meaning of Bollywood

Proper noun

Bollywood

  1. The Hindi-language film industry located in Mumbai.
    • Bollywood is also very commonly known as both tinsel town and B-town, neither of which is listed in the dictionaries.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302
  2. (broadly, abroad, often erroneously) The cinema of India in general, no matter the region.
    • Fawad Khan, an actor, singer and producer with a huge following in India, announced his Bollywood comeback last week, sending fans into a frenzy, 18 months after an Indian court effectively ruled that a de facto industry ban on Pakistani talent imposed in 2016 was illegal.2025 April 7, Rhea Mogul, “Pakistani star’s Bollywood return excites fans and riles far right”, in CNN

Questions about B'wood

What is B'wood the abbreviation of?
B'wood is the abbreviation of Bollywood.

Words near B'wood in the dictionary

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  5. B'way
  6. B'wood
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  10. b******sed
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Adapted from Wiktionary: B'wood (page history and authors); Bollywood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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