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screenland

screenland

1 8.9
The world of movies and the people who make them
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : mundo del cine
  • Many aspiring actors dream of making it big in screenland.

Examples

  • Is that a new Screenland Magazine?

  • These publications occasionally featured celebrity photographers like Beaton, who provided a spectacular spread of photographs to a 1931 issue of Screenland, and Hoyningen-Huene, who offered Photoplay a typology of thirteen beautiful women in an interview from 1934.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The annual film festival attracted prominent figures from screenland to showcase their latest projects.

  • She has always been fascinated by the behind-the-scenes magic of screenland and how movies are made.

Synonyms

screen
vsscreenland
  • Literature
262 5.2

The film and TV world of actors and directors

refers to the whole community rather than only those who work
big screen
vsscreenland
38 3.0

A cinema where films are shown to many people

means the people community involved in making films rather than the medium
film industry
vsscreenland
19 2.4

People and companies that make, sell, and show movies

is the community of people rather than the commercial business structure
movie industry
vsscreenland
  • US
14 2.5

A business that makes and shows films for people to watch

refers to the people community rather than the business operations
filmdom
vsscreenland
1 7.6

People and companies that make movies

is the same community term but more poetic or nostalgic
moviedom
vsscreenland
  • US
1 6.8

The world of movies and the people who make them

covers the same community but without the casual nickname tone
Movieland
vsscreenland
  • Informal
1 6.5

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

is the community term without the glamorous place image
Hollywood
vsscreenland
2.1

The American film industry, especially studios and stars in Los Angeles

means the general community worldwide rather than one national centre

How Central

Hollywood
2.1
film industry
19 2.4
screenland
  • Archaic
1 8.9
moviedom
  • US
1 6.8

Surface Forms

screenland singular
screenlands plural

Morphology

screenland = screen + land (semi-transparent) = screen + land

The components 'screen' and 'land' are clear, but the sense 'community/world of the film industry' is a metaphorical extension of 'land' (domain), so the meaning is not strictly literal.

Etymology

Screenland joins screen (the movie or TV screen) and land ('place'), so you can imagine a whole 'place of screens' where film and TV people live and work; that's why screenland means the world or community of people involved in the film industry.