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View synonyms for picture show

picture show

[ pik-cher shoh ]

noun

, Older Use.
  1. a movie; motion picture.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of picture show1

First recorded in 1865–70, in sense “exhibition of pictures” and in 1910–15 for current senses
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Example Sentences

Improbably, Sharknado had become the social media version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Cult films are a genre of their own; ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ has been popular for forty years now.

The Last Picture Show was a rare example of the right director getting the right material at the right stage in his career.

I thought this might actually be like going to an ultraconservative version of the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

She had just won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Last Picture Show.

A richly coloured watering-place slid into view, as in a moving-picture show.

And would steal once too often, for the moving-picture show, and gets herself into a corner!

Jim smiled reminiscently and then said, "I'm going to start an ice cream and soft drink joint next to the moving picture show."

I believe Id rather live here, where you can walk to church and school and to the groceries and picture show and everything.

She quite forgot that he had taken her to a moving-picture show once in two weeks.

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