variants
or less commonly porno
1
informal
: pornography
watching porn
—often used before another nouna porn star
the porn industry
a porno theater
2
porno plural pornos, informal
: a pornographic movie
… the ex-silent starlet whose voice, unfit for sound-film consumption, relegated her to pornos …—
John Simon
John Simon
Examples of porn in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Given its increasing sophistication and availability, anyone with a picture of your face now can basically turn it into a porno.
—WIRED, 23 June 2023
Smog choked the city, the Hollywood sign was crumbling, and the old movie palaces had become porno theatres.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
The Story of My Death about Casanova, the self-explanatory The Death of Louis XIV and aristos-dogging-in-corsets porno Liberté.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
The feminist magazines at the time, and the porno magazines at the time.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
Those feelings of inadequacy and frustration, for the kids out back making a porno, spell trouble.
—Jake Coyle, Chron, 16 Mar. 2022
Also in 1978, a porno movie brought even more unwanted attention, when Debbie Does Dallas, modeled loosely on the cheerleaders, drew a Texas-sized helping of Cowboys’ outrage.
—Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2022
In the new millennium, technology was porn’s undoing.
—Susannah Breslin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2018
Debating porn’s ills on society seems like a game of choose-your-own-study.
—Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
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WIRED, 23 June 2023
Smog choked the city, the Hollywood sign was crumbling, and the old movie palaces had become porno theatres.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
The Story of My Death about Casanova, the self-explanatory The Death of Louis XIV and aristos-dogging-in-corsets porno Liberté.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
The feminist magazines at the time, and the porno magazines at the time.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
Those feelings of inadequacy and frustration, for the kids out back making a porno, spell trouble.
—Jake Coyle, Chron, 16 Mar. 2022
Also in 1978, a porno movie brought even more unwanted attention, when Debbie Does Dallas, modeled loosely on the cheerleaders, drew a Texas-sized helping of Cowboys’ outrage.
—Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2022
In the new millennium, technology was porn’s undoing.
—Susannah Breslin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2018
Debating porn’s ills on society seems like a game of choose-your-own-study.
—Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 29 May 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1962, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing porn
Dictionary Entries Near porn
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“Porn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/porn. Accessed 26 Sep. 2023.
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