picture show

1. 1.

   a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

   “they went to a movie every Saturday night”

   “the film was shot on location”

   Synonymsmoviefilmpicturemoving picturemoving-picture showmotion picturemotion-picture showpicflick

   Broadershowproduct

   Narrowertelefilmfeaturefinal cuthome moviecollage filmcoming attractionshoot-'em-upshort subjectdocumentarycinema verite

   Partssequencecreditsubtitlecreditsscene

Questions about picture show

What does picture show mean?

picture show means "a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement".

What is another word for picture show?

Close synonyms include movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is picture show a common word?

picture show is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.