film

film

noun

Definition of FILM

1

a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track <watched a film on the Hopi Indians at the multicultural center>

Synonyms film, flick, flicker, motion picture, moving picture, picture

Related Words animated cartoon, cartoon, docudrama, documentary, feature, featurette, short, short subject; silent, talkie; B movie, B picture, cofeature

2

the art or business of making a movie <learned about some of the special-effects techniques used in film>

Synonyms big screen, cinema, film, filmdom, filmland, filmmaking, moviemaking, pictures, screen, silver screen

Related Words Bollywood, Hollywood; showbiz, show business