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📍 A district 🎥 Related to movies 🎬 Film industry ✨ Glamorous style 💃 Showy or flashy
Hollywood

Hollywood

∞ 2.3
A Los Angeles district famous for its movie studios and stars
  • proper noun
  • /ˈhɑːliˌwʊd/
translation icon : Hollywood
  • Have you ever dreamed of being a Hollywood producer, director, writer, or cinematographer?
  • Hollywood Boulevard
  • Hollywood, CA

And they came back from Hollywood to try and expand us.

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Examples

  • And they came back from Hollywood to try and expand us.

    Theo Von

  • Hollywood is no cakewalk.

    Fly Me to the Moon (2024)

  • Maybe I should become a Hollywood agent.

    Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

  • Child actor, we're on our way to Hollywood for a big screen test.

    Ezra (2024)

  • I mean, think about Hollywood and its reaction to COVID.

  • There is gonna be a story tomorrow in the Hollywood Reporter about this.

    Barbarian (2022)

  • Max Baer has the look and swagger of a Hollywood star.

    Cinderella Man (2005)

  • We proudly welcome to the Hollywood Walk of Fame Doctor Phil McGraw.

    Dr. Phil

  • Many aspiring actors dream of making it big in Hollywood.

  • She moved to Hollywood to pursue her career in filmmaking.

Synonyms

Movieland
vsHollywood
  • Informal
1 6.5

A name for Hollywood and the movie world as a glamorous place

is the actual Los Angeles district and historic industry center

Compounds

Hollywood moment
1 6.1

A dramatic, memorable event that feels like a scene from a movie

Surface Forms

Hollywood main

Morphology

Hollywood = holly + wood (semi-transparent) = holly + wood

The compound 'holly' + 'wood' is literal in form, but as a place-name its connection to holly trees is historical and the toponym functions as a proper name rather than a descriptive phrase for learners.

Etymology

Hollywood was the name given to a small area near Los Angeles in the late 1800s and likely comes from the English words holly ('a plant') and wood ('a small forest'). So it started as the name of a place, which is why Hollywood today is the famous district of the film industry.