picture show

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picture show

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Ellipsis of 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.

noun picture shows

dated Synonym of movie. 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.
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@misc{picture_show_2026,
  title = {picture show},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/picture%20show},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}