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Hollywood
[ hol-ee-wood ]
noun
- the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
- a city in SE Florida, near Miami: seaside resort.
Hollywood
/ ˈhɒlɪˌwʊd /
noun
- a NW suburb of Los Angeles, California: centre of the American film industry. Pop: 167 664 (2000)
- the American film industry
- ( as modifier )
a Hollywood star
Notes
Other Words From
- Holly·wood·ite Holly·wooder noun
Example Sentences
ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.
Because I was living with this story, I watched closely as Hollywood considered making a film about Selma.
Afraid the Korean secret police would not believe his kidnapping story, Shin settled in Hollywood.
Are the standards for female beauty in Hollywood ridiculous?
I realise that I am getting nowhere, meeting nobody and still playing in Hollywood.
See how it's inlaid with hollywood and cherry and how fine the lines of it are!
Genial, peppery, he not only talked like a Hollywood Englishman, he was a casting director's dream.
I drew him toward Hollywood Boulevard and into a restaurant I calculated might not be too expensive for his generosity.
Standing some hundred yards back from the road was the famous Hollywood Inn, run by the genial Moriarty.
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