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picturedom

picturedom noun: synonym of filmdom (“the film or movie industry; the people who work in that industry”).

Noun

picturedom (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of filmdom (“the film or movie industry; the people who work in that industry”).
    • As the industry today stands, so does "Ben Hur" stand: the greatest achievement that has been accomplished on the screen for not only the screen itself, but for all modern picturedom.2002, Neil A. Hamilton, editor, Lifetimes: The Great War to the Stock Market Crash, Westport, C.T.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 199, column 1
    Synonyms:
    filmdom

Synonyms of picturedom

Origin of picturedom

From picture (“a motion picture”) + -dom.

Questions about picturedom

What does picturedom mean?
Picturedom means synonym of filmdom (“the film or movie industry; the people who work in that industry”).
What part of speech is picturedom?
Picturedom is a noun.

Words near picturedom in the dictionary

  1. pictureable
  2. picturebook
  3. picturebooks
  4. picturecraft
  5. pictured
  6. picturedom
  7. picturedrome
  8. picturedromes
  9. pictureframe
  10. pictureframes
  11. pictureful

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