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filmdom

filmdom

1 7.6
People and companies that make movies
  • noun
  • /ˈfɪlmˌdəm/
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  • Many aspiring actors dream of making it big in filmdom and achieving their Hollywood ambitions.

Examples

  • She attended the festival to meet influential figures in filmdom, including directors and producers.

  • Keep in mind that this is filmdom's coolest policeman ever, driving down the bad guys in the coolest car to ever grace the big screen.

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  • Filmdom is full of inspiring stories of creativity and collaboration among filmdom filmmakers.

Synonyms

screen
vsfilmdom
  • Literature
262 5.2

The film and TV world of actors and directors

is broader, including the whole creative world and production side
moviedom
vsfilmdom
  • US
1 6.8

The world of movies and the people who make them

is broader, stressing the whole industry and its making processes
screenland
vsfilmdom
  • Archaic
1 8.9

The world of movies and the people who make them

focuses more on the wider world of films and filmmaking

Surface Forms

filmdom singular
filmdoms plural

Morphology

filmdom = film (transparent) = film + dom

The meaning 'the world/people of film' is a direct, predictable extension of 'film' + the collective/domain suffix '-dom'.

Etymology

Filmdom joins film and the old ending -dom, which means 'place' or 'group', as in kingdom ('rule of a king'). So filmdom is the world and community of films and the people who work in them.