picturedom
English edit
Etymology edit
From picture (“a motion picture”) + -dom.
Noun edit
picturedom (uncountable)
- Synonym of filmdom (“the film or movie industry; the people who work in that industry”).
- 2002, Neil A. Hamilton, editor, Lifetimes: The Great War to the Stock Market Crash, Westport, C.T., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 199, column 1:
- As the industry today stands, so does "Ben Hur" stand: the greatest achievement that has been accomplished on the screen for not only the screen itself, but for all modern picturedom.
References edit
- “picturedom”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “picturedom, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
