Filmdom

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The film (movie) industry; the people who work in that industry. uncountable

    "Because all filmdom was laughing itself to the bursting point, not at Chaplin's antics, not even at the sight of the real Chaplin appearing on the Hippodrome stage — […]"

  2. 2
    the personnel of the film industry wordnet

Example

More examples

"Because all filmdom was laughing itself to the bursting point, not at Chaplin's antics, not even at the sight of the real Chaplin appearing on the Hippodrome stage — […]"

Etymology

From film + -dom.

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