CREDITS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does credits mean? 

• CREDITS (noun)
  The noun CREDITS has 1 sense:

1. a list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)

  Familiarity information: CREDITS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREDITS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A list of acknowledgements of those who contributed to the creation of a film (usually run at the end of the film)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("credits" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

acknowledgement; acknowledgment (a statement acknowledging something or someone)

Holonyms ("credits" is a part 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)

 Context examples 

Credits: Based on the University of Cambridge article, "How humans and wild birds collaborate to get precious resources of honey and wax".

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The guard treated him unfairly, lied about him to the warden, lost his credits, persecuted him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)