pix
/pɪks/
pix noun: motion pictures; movies. Also the plural of pic.
Noun
pix pl (normally plural, singular pic)
- Motion pictures; movies.
- Mutual has started a campaign to substitute a word for the term “Movies.” It contemplates the use of the word “Pix” and thinks this would be welcomed as a short word for the headline writer and amply descriptive.[1916 December 8, “News of the film world”, in Variety, volume XLV, number 2, page 27
Also used as
pix is also the plural of pic.
pix is also the obsolete spelling of pyx.
Forms of pix
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| singular | pic |
| plural | pixes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pixes |
| present participle | pixing |
| past participle | pixed |
| past | pixed |
Origin of pix
Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.
A variant of pyx.
Words that rhyme with pix
Questions about pix
- What does pix mean?
- Pix means motion pictures; movies.
- What part of speech is pix?
- Pix is a noun.
- How do you pronounce pix?
- Pix is pronounced /pɪks/.
- What is the plural of pix?
- The plural of pix is pixes.
Words near pix in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pix (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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