picture show

Questions about picture show

What is another word for picture show?

It depends which picture show you mean. In the sense “a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement”, the synonyms are movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, pic, flick. Across all 1 sense there are 9 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of picture show?

WordNet records no antonym for picture show. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for picture show come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of picture show

• Full entry for picture showAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for picture showWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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