picture show

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of movie. dated
    — His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it.

词形变化

picture shows plural

词源

Short for motion-picture show. Although the collocation per se (noun adjunct + noun) predates motion pictures, previously having referred occasionally to the display of collections of illustrations, its status as a compound noun comes from its motion-picture sense.
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