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photoplays

photoplays is the plural of photoplay.

Meaning of photoplay

Noun

photoplay (plural photoplays)

  1. A theatrical play that has been filmed for showing as a movie.
  2. A novel adapted from a movie and illustrated with photographic stills taken from the film. Usage largely confined to the silent era of Hollywood.
  3. (dated) A motion picture.
    • The three essentials of the photoplay are the Synopsis, the Cast and the Plot of Action.1913, Epes Winthrop Sargent, The Technique of the Photoplay, New York, page 30

Questions about photoplays

What is photoplays the plural of?
Photoplays is the plural of photoplay.

Words near photoplays in the dictionary

  1. photoplate
  2. photoplates
  3. photoplay
  4. photoplayer
  5. photoplayers
  6. photoplays
  7. photoplaywright
  8. photoplaywrights
  9. photoplethysmogram
  10. photoplethysmograms
  11. photoplethysmograph

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photoplays (page history and authors); photoplay (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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