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Definition of Hollywood

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the film industry in the United States. "A Hollywood actor"

2. Noun. The film industry of the United States.

3. Adjective. Flashy and vulgar. "Hollywood philandering"

4. Noun. A flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry. "Some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood"

5. Noun. A district of Los Angeles long associated with the American film industry.

Definition of Hollywood

1. Proper noun. An area of Los Angeles, known as the center of the American motion picture industry. ¹

2. Proper noun. (context by extension) The American motion picture industry, regardless of location. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hollywood

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Literary usage of Hollywood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals of Henrico Parish by Lewis William Burton, Robert Alonzo Brock (1904)
"July 22—Emmett C. Johnston, aged 1 year and 11 months; Hollywood Cemetery. ... October 15—Emma Gertrude Dornin, aged 8 years; Hollywood Cemetery. 1864. ..."

2. Reports of the Decisions of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York by Austin Abbott, New York (State). Court of Appeals (1883)
"Eugene Hollywood having been convicted in the New York general sessions, in September, ... H. Stuart, for plaintiff in error,—The offense proved Hollywood ..."

3. Who's who in Music in California by Willey Francis Gates (1920)
"Took up dramatics and motion picture work and at present is casting director of the Hollywood Studios, Inc. Is director of Sou.-West Orchestra, at Manual ..."

4. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"A GRAVE IN Hollywood CEMETERY, RICHMOND (JRT) I read the marble-lettered name, And half in bitterness I said: "As Dante from Ravenna came, Our poet came ..."

5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Arthur Stedman, Edmund Clarence Stedman (1894)
"A GRAVE IN Hollywood CEMETERY, RICHMOND, (j. RT) I READ the marble-lettered name, And half in bitterness I said: "As Dante from Ravenna came, Our poet came ..."

6. The Southern Amaranth: A Carefully Selected Collection of Poems Growing Out by Sallie A. Brock (1869)
"TWILIGHT AT Hollywood. ... Quite motionless she stood, Until the paths grew dim, then turned away; And twilight gathers over Hollywood. ..."

7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Hollywood TRIBUNE News and Views Hollywood and the World 'It is easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than for the truth to get into a ..."

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