movielandn.
/ˈmuːvɪland/, U.S. /ˈmuviˌlænd/ The world of the film industry, spec. that of Hollywood.
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1914 C. L. Hagen in R. Grau Theatre of Sci. p. xxiv Is it to be wondered at..that authors, actors, and science await the call to ‘movie’ land?
1935 Motion Picture Nov. 66/2 Once the reddest-nailed star in movieland, she now uses no color at all on her fingernails.
1978 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1405/5 Success takes him to Hollywood, and there you feel a roman à clef, based on Puzo's profitable frustrations in movieland, is intended.
1995 Daily Tel. 3 Apr. 15/5 Sony's losses in movieland, where executive pay-offs alone exceeded $500 million, have enforced a cultural retrenchment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1914- to put through one's own net
- to put through paces
- to put through the hoop
- to put through the hoops
- to put through the mangle
- to put through the market
- to put through the mill
- to put through the wringer
- to put throw off the mask
- to put to
- to put to a corner
- to put to a diet
- to put to a foil
- to put to a pause
- to put to a person's abandon
- to put to a person's credit
- to put to a plunge
- to put to a rebuke
- to put to a rout
- to put to a stance
- to put to a stand
- to put to a use
- to put to an issue
- to put to bed
- to put to compromise