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film

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Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of film

flick, flicker, motion picture, movie, moving picture, picture

Words Related to film

animated cartoon, cartoon, docudrama, documentary, feature, featurette, short, short subject

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 of film

big screen, cinema, filmdom, filmland, filmmaking, movie, moviemaking, pictures, screen, silver screen

Words Related to film

Bollywood, Hollywood

showbiz, show business

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