Hollywood

Hollywood

English

Etymology

Coined by real estate developer H. J. Whitley, from holly +‎ wood. It refers to toyon, a common shrub in the area.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hŏlʹ-ē-wo͝od, IPA^(key): /ˈhɒl.i.wʊd/
  • (US) [ˈhɑɫ.i.wʊd]
  • (UK) [ˈhɒɫ.i.wʊd]

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• Hyphenation: Hol‧ly‧wood
• Rhymes: -ɒliwʊd

Proper noun

Hollywood

1. An area in Los Angeles, known as the center of the American motion picture industry.
2. (metonymically) The American motion picture industry, regardless of location.
   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

3. An unincorporatedcommunity in Habersham County, Georgia, United States.
4. A village in Wythall parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0877).

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Bollywood (for more similarly formed names, see Category:en:Film industries)
• Dollywood
• Hezbollywood
• Hollywood ending
• Hollywoodesque
• Hollywoodian
• Hollywoodish
• Hollywood moment
• Hollywood principle
• Hollywood wax
• Kannywood
• Nollywood
• Ollywood
• Pallywood
• Pedowood (derogatory)
• Urduwood (derogatory, India)

Translations

area of Los Angeles

Albanian: Hollivudi m, Hollivud m (indefinite) Amharic: ሆሊውድ (holiwd) Arabic: هُولِيوُود‎ f (holiwūd), هُولِيوُود‎ f (holiwud) Armenian: Հոլիվուդ (Holivud) Belarusian: Галіву́д m (Halivúd), Халіву́д m (Xalivúd) Bengali: হলিউড (hôliuḍ) Bulgarian: Хо́ливуд m (Hólivud) Burmese: ဟောလိဝုဒ် (hau:li.wud) Chinese: Cantonese: 荷里活 (ho6 lei5 wut6) Mandarin: 好萊塢／好莱坞 (zh) (Hǎoláiwù) Czech: Hollywood (cs) m Dutch: Hollywood (nl) n Esperanto: Holivudo Finnish: Hollywood French: Hollywood (fr) m Galician: Hollywood m Georgian: ჰოლივუდი (holivudi) German: Hollywood (de) n Greek: Χόλιγουντ (el) (Chóligount), Χόλυγουντ (el) n (Chólygount) Hebrew: הוֹלִיווּד‎ f (holivud) Hindi: हॉलीवुड m (hŏlīvuḍ) Hungarian: Hollywood (hu) Japanese: ハリウッド (Hariuddo) Khmer: ហូលីវូដ (houliivuut) Korean: 할리우드 (Halliudeu) Latin: Ruscisilva f, urbs Aquifoliensis f Latvian: Holivuda f Lithuanian: Holivudas m Macedonian: Хо́ливуд m (Hólivud) Marathi: हॉलीवुड (hŏlīvuḍ) Mongolian: Холливуд (Xollivud) Nepali: हलिवुड (haliwuḍ) Persian: هالیوود‎ (fa) (hâlivud) Polish: Hollywood (pl) m Portuguese: Hollywood m Russian: Голливу́д (ru) m (Gollivúd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Холивуд m (Serbian) Roman: Hollywood (sh) m (Croatian), Holivud m (Serbian) Spanish: Hollywood (es) m Thai: ฮอลลีวูด (hɔn-lii-wúut) Ukrainian: Голліву́д m (Hollivúd) Vietnamese: Hô-li-út, Hoa Lệ Ước (dated), Hồ Ly Vọng (dated) Yiddish: האָליוווּד‎ m (holivud)

the American motion picture industry

Albanian: Hollivudi m, Hollivud m Amharic: ሆሊውድ (holiwd) Arabic: هُولِيوُود‎ f (holiwūd), هُولِيوُود‎ f (holiwud) Armenian: Հոլիվուդ (Holivud) Belarusian: Галіву́д m (Halivúd) Bengali: হলিউড (hôliuḍ) Bulgarian: Хо́ливуд m (Hólivud) Burmese: ဟောလိဝုဒ် (hau:li.wud) Chinese: Cantonese: 荷里活 (ho4 lei5 wut6) Mandarin: 好萊塢／好莱坞 (zh) (Hǎoláiwù) Dutch: Hollywood (nl) n Finnish: Hollywood French: Hollywood (fr) m Galician: Hollywood m Georgian: ჰოლივუდი (holivudi) German: Hollywood (de) n Greek: Χόλυγουντ (el) n (Chólygount) Hebrew: הוֹלִיווּד‎ f (holivud) Hindi: हॉलीवुड m (hŏlīvuḍ) Hungarian: Hollywood (hu) Japanese: ハリウッド (Hariuddo) Khmer: ហូលីវូដ (houliivuut) Korean: 할리우드 (Halliudeu) Latvian: Holivuda f Lithuanian: Holivudas m Macedonian: Хо́ливуд m (Hólivud) Marathi: हॉलीवुड (hŏlīvuḍ) Mongolian: Холливуд (Xollivud) Nepali: हलिवुड (haliwuḍ) Persian: هالیوود‎ (fa) (hâlivud) Portuguese: Hollywood f Russian: Голливу́д (ru) m (Gollivúd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Холивуд m (Serbian) Roman: Hollywood (sh) m (Croatian), Holivud m (Serbian) Spanish: Hollywood (es) m Thai: ฮอลลีวูด (hɔn-lii-wúut) Ukrainian: Голліву́д m (Hollivúd) Urdu: ہالی ووڈ‎ m (hālī vuḍ), ہالیووڈ‎ m (hālīvuḍ), ہالی وڈ‎ m (hālī vuḍ), ہالیوڈ‎ m (hālīvuḍ) Vietnamese: Hô-li-út, Hoa Lệ Ước (dated), Hồ Ly Vọng (dated)

Adjective

Hollywood (comparative more Hollywood, superlative most Hollywood)

1. Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie industry.
   • 2002, Jon E. Lewis, Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry‎, pages 168-169:

     As many critics pointed out, the timely (but mostly tame and light) comedy was not too controversial, but too popular, too American, and too Hollywood to headline a festival that was scheduled to screen the likes of Robert Bresson's Un Feme Douce, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Gai Savior, Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's, Agnes Varda's Lion's Love, Paola Pier Pasolini's Pigpen, and Bo Widenberg's Adelen '31.

   • 2007, Jason Isbell, "Dress Blues":

     What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war?

   • 2013, Marc Raymond, Hollywood's New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese‎, page 68:

     The film is at once too Hollywood and too realistic. It is tied to genre conventions while stylistically following the new code of realism, especially with regard to mise-en-scène and performance.

2. Of or characteristic of a Hollywood film.
   • 2002, Kirse Granat May, "Golden State, Golden Youth":

     A Time reporter called Reagan "Hollywood handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance", a candidate who had "rattled political seismographs from coast to coast."

Noun

Hollywood (plural Hollywoods)

1. A waxing practice that removes all of the pubic hair, unlike a Brazilian which leaves a small strip behind.
   • 2009, Shane Watson, How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas:

     If you ask the woman who does your waxing she will tell you that everyone is asking for Brazilians or Hollywoods, including Gwyneth Paltrow […]

Verb

Hollywood (third-person singular simple present Hollywoods, present participle Hollywooding, simple past and past participle Hollywooded)

1. (various) To perform an act of Hollywooding.

See also

• Holywood
• Hollyweird
• Hollywoke

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Catalan

Proper noun

Hollywood ?

1. Hollywood

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French

Proper noun

Hollywood ?

1. the American film industry
2. Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɔliwʊt/, /ˈhɔlivʊt/

Proper noun

Hollywood n (proper noun, genitive Hollywoods or (optionally with an article) Hollywood)

1. Hollywood (an area in Los Angeles)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Hollywood.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁɔ.liˈwu.d͡ʒi/ [ˌhɔ.liˈwu.d͡ʒi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁɔ.liˈwu.d͡ʒi/ [ˌhɔ.liˈwu.d͡ʒi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌʁɔ.liˈwu.d͡ʒi/ [ˌχɔ.liˈwu.d͡ʒi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʁɔ.liˈwu.de/ [ˌhɔ.liˈwu.de]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈlju.d(ɨ)/ [ɔˈlju.ð(ɨ)]

Proper noun

Hollywood

1. Hollywood (a neighbourhood of Los Angeles)
2. Hollywood (the American motion picture industry)

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Spanish

Proper noun

Hollywood m

1. Hollywood (an area in Los Angeles)
2. Hollywood (the American motion picture industry)