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voiceover

voiceover is the alternative form of voice-over.

Meaning of voice-over

Noun

voice-over (plural voice-overs)

  1. A production technique, in which pictures are accompanied by the voice of an unseen actor or reporter.
  2. A voice-overed release, especially of foreign content.
  3. The voice audio track of such a broadcast.
    • Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones). […] With Reality [Winner]’s voice-overs doing the bulk of the...2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 20 Sep 2024

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Forms of voiceover

Noun
pluralvoiceovers
Verb
third-person singular presentvoiceovers
present participlevoiceovering
past participlevoiceovered
pastvoiceovered

Questions about voiceover

What is voiceover the alternative form of?
Voiceover is the alternative form of voice-over.

Words near voiceover in the dictionary

  1. voicemogging
  2. voicemogs
  3. voicening
  4. voicenote
  5. voicenotes
  6. voiceover
  7. voiceovered
  8. voiceovering
  9. voiceovers
  10. voicepipe
  11. voicepipes

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