Hollywood

[ hol-ee-wood ]

noun

1. the NW part of Los Angeles, Calif.: center of the American motion-picture industry.
2. a city in SE Florida, near Miami: seaside resort.

Hollywood

/ ˈhɒlɪˌwʊd /

noun

1. a NW suburb of Los Angeles, California: centre of the American film industry. Pop: 167 664 (2000)
2. 1. the American film industry
   2. ( as modifier )

      a Hollywood star

Hollywood

1. District of Los Angeles .

Notes

Center of the American film industry.

Other Words From

• Holly·wood·ite Holly·wooder noun

Example Sentences

The bigger issue — which is the most wide-open of Hollywood secrets — is that HFPA members are routinely courted by studios with lavish gifts.

From Vox

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.

From Singularity Hub 

Hollywood studios have been waiting for New York City and Los Angeles to reopen theaters before they release their backlog of big-budget movies.

From Quartz

Hollywood is responsible for about a third of the highest-grossing films in China of all time.

From Quartz

Count Oleg Cassini, favored fashion designer to Hollywood stars and Jacqueline Kennedy, married his first wife, heiress Mary “Merry” Fahrney in 1938 in Elkton.

From Time

ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

From The Daily Beast

This is a Hollywood director at the height of his powers creating original, wildly ambitious epics.

From The Daily Beast

Because I was living with this story, I watched closely as Hollywood considered making a film about Selma.

From The Daily Beast

Afraid the Korean secret police would not believe his kidnapping story, Shin settled in Hollywood.

From The Daily Beast

Are the standards for female beauty in Hollywood ridiculous?

From The Daily Beast

I realise that I am getting nowhere, meeting nobody and still playing in Hollywood.

From Project Gutenberg

See how it's inlaid with hollywood and cherry and how fine the lines of it are!

From Project Gutenberg

Genial, peppery, he not only talked like a Hollywood Englishman, he was a casting director's dream.

From Project Gutenberg

I drew him toward Hollywood Boulevard and into a restaurant I calculated might not be too expensive for his generosity.

From Project Gutenberg

Standing some hundred yards back from the road was the famous Hollywood Inn, run by the genial Moriarty.

From Project Gutenberg

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