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newsreels

newsreels is the plural of newsreel.

Meaning of newsreel

Noun

newsreel (countable and uncountable, plural newsreels)

  1. (countable) A short film containing news or current affairs; especially one of several shown in sequence.
    • The film, written and directed by Michelle Ferrari, is filled with jaw-dropping moments: newsreel footage of white American families merrily competing in “genetic fitness” contests at state fairs where they were measured like livestock; a retelling of a pivotal court case where a teenage mother was...2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN
  2. (uncountable) The genre of such films.

Questions about newsreels

What is newsreels the plural of?
Newsreels is the plural of newsreel.

Words near newsreels in the dictionary

  1. newsreaders
  2. newsreading
  3. newsreel
  4. newsreelman
  5. newsreelmen
  6. newsreels
  7. newsroom
  8. newsrooms
  9. newsroomwide
  10. newsround
  11. newsrounds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newsreels (page history and authors); newsreel (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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