Hollywood

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English

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Etymology

(Hollywood, L.A., CA, USA): Coined by real estate developer H. J. Whitley, from holly +‎ wood.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hŏlʹ-ē-wo͝od, IPA(key): /ˈhɒl.i.wʊd/
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    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Hyphenation: Hol‧ly‧wood
  • Rhymes: -ɒliwʊd

Proper noun

Hollywood (countable and uncountable, plural Hollywoods)

  1. An area in Los Angeles, California, known as the center of the American motion picture industry.
  2. (metonymically) The American motion picture industry, regardless of location.
    • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
      Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
  3. Other places in the United States:
    1. A town in Jackson County, Alabama.
    2. A neighbourhood and historic district in Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama.
    3. A city in Broward County, Florida.
    4. An unincorporated community in Habersham County, Georgia.
    5. An unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland, named for a large holly tree.
    6. An unincorporated community and township in Carver County, Minnesota.
    7. An unincorporated community in Tunica County, Mississippi.
    8. An unincorporated community in Dunklin County, Missouri.
    9. A neighbourhood of Ruidoso, Lincoln County, New Mexico.
    10. A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
    11. A neighbourhood of Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
    12. An unincorporated community in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
    13. A town in Charleston County, South Carolina.
    14. A neighbourhood in north Memphis, Tennessee.
    15. An unincorporated community in Appomattox County, Virginia.
    16. An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
    17. An unincorporated community in Monroe County, West Virginia.
    18. Former name of MacArthur, West Virginia.
  4. A village in west County Wicklow, Ireland.
  5. A village in Wythall parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0877).
  6. A nickname for someone involved with the film industry or celebrity culture.

Synonyms

Hollywood, L.A., Calif., U.S.A.
U.S. film industry

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Adjective

Hollywood (comparative more Hollywood, superlative most Hollywood)

  1. Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie industry.
    • 2002, Jon E. Lewis, Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry‎, pages 168–169:
      As many critics pointed out, the timely (but mostly tame and light) comedy was not too controversial, but too popular, too American, and too Hollywood to headline a festival that was scheduled to screen the likes of Robert Bresson's Un Feme Douce, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Gai Savior, Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's, Agnes Varda's Lion's Love, Paola Pier Pasolini's Pigpen, and Bo Widenberg's Adelen '31.
    • 2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues:
      What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war?
    • 2013, Marc Raymond, Hollywood's New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese‎, page 68:
      The film is at once too Hollywood and too realistic. It is tied to genre conventions while stylistically following the new code of realism, especially with regard to mise-en-scène and performance.
  2. Of or characteristic of a Hollywood film.
    • 2002, Kirse Granat May, Golden State, Golden Youth:
      A Time reporter called Reagan "Hollywood handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance", a candidate who had "rattled political seismographs from coast to coast."

Noun

Hollywood (plural Hollywoods)

  1. A waxing practice that removes all of the pubic hair, unlike a Brazilian which leaves a small strip behind.
    • 2009, Shane Watson, How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas:
      If you ask the woman who does your waxing she will tell you that everyone is asking for Brazilians or Hollywoods, including Gwyneth Paltrow […]

Verb

Hollywood (third-person singular simple present Hollywoods, present participle Hollywooding, simple past and past participle Hollywooded)

  1. To engage in Hollywooding (various senses).

See also

Catalan

Proper noun

Hollywood ?

  1. Hollywood

French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Hollywood ?

  1. the American film industry
  2. Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɔliwʊt/, /ˈhɔlivʊt/
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Proper noun

Hollywood n (proper noun, genitive Hollywoods or (optionally with an article) Hollywood)

  1. Hollywood (an area in Los Angeles)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Hollywood.

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Hollywood

  1. Hollywood (a neighbourhood of Los Angeles)
  2. Hollywood (the American motion picture industry)

Spanish

Proper noun

Hollywood m

  1. Hollywood (an area in Los Angeles)
  2. Hollywood (the American motion picture industry)
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