Hollywood [ hol -ee-woo d ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhɒl iˌwʊd / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
a city in SE Florida, near Miami: seaside resort.
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How to use Hollywood in a sentence The bigger issue — which is the most wide-open of Hollywood secrets — is that HFPA members are routinely courted by studios with lavish gifts.
As reported by TechCrunch, using electric aircraft to get people to and from the airport could reduce CO2 emissions by up to 50 percent per passenger on a trip between Hollywood and Los Angeles International Airport.
Hollywood studios have been waiting for New York City and Los Angeles to reopen theaters before they release their backlog of big-budget movies.
Hollywood is responsible for about a third of the highest-grossing films in China of all time.
Count Oleg Cassini, favored fashion designer to Hollywood stars and Jacqueline Kennedy, married his first wife, heiress Mary “Merry” Fahrney in 1938 in Elkton.
ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.
Because I was living with this story, I watched closely as Hollywood considered making a film about Selma.
Afraid the Korean secret police would not believe his kidnapping story, Shin settled in Hollywood .
Are the standards for female beauty in Hollywood ridiculous?
I realise that I am getting nowhere, meeting nobody and still playing in Hollywood .
See how it's inlaid with hollywood and cherry and how fine the lines of it are!
Genial, peppery, he not only talked like a Hollywood Englishman, he was a casting director's dream.
I drew him toward Hollywood Boulevard and into a restaurant I calculated might not be too expensive for his generosity.
Standing some hundred yards back from the road was the famous Hollywood Inn, run by the genial Moriarty.
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British Dictionary definitions for Hollywood
noun
a NW suburb of Los Angeles, California: centre of the American film industry. Pop: 167 664 (2000)
the American film industry (as modifier ) a Hollywood star Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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Cultural definitions for Hollywood
notes for Hollywood Center of the American film industry.
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