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
A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, historical, informal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, historical
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a movie with synchronized speech and singing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: talking picture
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick
History
Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.
Across languages
10 source translations are retained for this English entry.
