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picture show

picture show noun: synonym of movie.

Noun

picture show (plural picture shows)

  1. (dated) Synonym of movie.
    • His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    movie

Synonyms of picture show

Forms of picture show

pluralpicture shows

Origin of picture show

Ellipsis of motion-picture show. Although the collocation per se (noun adjunct + noun) predates motion pictures, previously having referred occasionally to the display of collections of illustrations, its status as a compound noun comes from its "motion picture" sense.

Questions about picture show

What does picture show mean?
Picture show means synonym of movie.
What part of speech is picture show?
Picture show is a noun.
What is the plural of picture show?
The plural of picture show is picture shows.

Words near picture show in the dictionary

  1. picture postcards
  2. picture rail
  3. picture rails
  4. picture rod
  5. picture rods
  6. picture show
  7. picture shows
  8. picture sort
  9. picture sorts
  10. picture tube
  11. picture tubes

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