Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
plural of pic (“picture”)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, informal, plural, plural-normally
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noun
Motion pictures; movies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-normally, specifically
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noun
Obsolete spelling of pyx.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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verb
Obsolete spelling of pyx.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, obsolete
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noun
any receptacle in which wafers for the Eucharist are kept
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pyx
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: receptacle
noun
a chest in which coins from the mint are held to await assay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pyx, pyx chest, pix chest
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: chest
History
Abbreviation of pictures, first used in Variety in 1916, along with other similar words that the magazine calls slanguage.
A variant of pyx.
