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TALKIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does talkie mean?
• TALKIE (noun)
The noun TALKIE has 1 sense:
1. a movie with synchronized speech and singing
Familiarity information: TALKIE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A movie with synchronized speech and singing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
talkie; talking picture
Hypernyms ("talkie" is a kind of...):
film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
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