Tinseltown

[ tin-suhl-toun ]

noun

, Informal.

1. Hollywood, California, as a center of the movie industry.

Tinseltown

/ ˈtɪnsəlˌtaʊn /

noun

1. an informal name for Hollywood

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tinseltown¹

C20: from the insubstantial glitter of the film world

Example Sentences

The City of Angels, La La Land, Tinseltown, the Big Orange — whatever you call this city and however you’ve made a life in it, you probably have an obsession or three about Los Angeles and our great state.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet as the entertainment industry faces yet another existential crisis threatening to turn Tinseltown into a ghost, it seems that what truly haunts L.A. are echoes of the same sad story repeated again and again through the ages.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet before we became Tinseltown, we had, count ‘em, three major opera houses downtown. At 1st and Main streets, on the site of the Caltrans building, sat the Grand Opera House. Mason Opera House was but two blocks away on Broadway. Around the corner from the Grand, Puccini’s “La Bohème” had its U.S. premiere in a 1897 touring production at the Los Angeles Theatre .

From Los Angeles Times

And naturally, being so close to Tinseltown, concierge same-day wedding services were available.

From Los Angeles Times

The storied L.A. poker scene — an obsession Tinseltown has self-mythologized since the Wild West — these days belongs to the emergent DIY art world.

From Los Angeles Times