tinseltown

Syllables: tin·sel·town/ˈtɪn.səlˌtaʊn/

tinseltown is the alternative letter-case form of Tinseltown.

Proper noun capitalized: Tinseltown

Tinseltown

(slang) Nickname for Hollywood: a district of Los Angeles, California, United States.
- There's a woman in the window / There's a bed in Tinseltown / I'll write you when it's over / Let me take this temple down2014, Leonard Cohen, “Samson in New Orleans”, in Popular Problems
(broadly, slang) The movie industry, as found in Hollywood, and Greater Los Angeles, CA, US.
(broadly, slang) The film industry of the United States of America.
(broadly, slang) The film industry in general.
(India, slang) The Bollywood movie industry.
- Bollywood is also very commonly known as both tinsel town and B-town, neither of which is listed in the dictionaries.2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 302
(India, slang) The Tollywood movie industry.
(India, informal, by restriction) Nickname for Film Nagar: a neighbourhood of Hyderabad, India.

Tinseltown (plural Tinseltowns)

From tinsel + town.

What does tinseltown mean?: Tinseltown means nickname for Hollywood: a district of Los Angeles, California, United States.
What is tinseltown the alternative letter-case form of?: Tinseltown is the alternative letter-case form of Tinseltown.
What part of speech is tinseltown?: Tinseltown can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce tinseltown?: Tinseltown is pronounced /ˈtɪn.səlˌtaʊn/.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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