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TALKING PICTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does talking picture mean? 

TALKING PICTURE (noun)
  The noun TALKING PICTURE has 1 sense:

1. a movie with synchronized speech and singingplay

  Familiarity information: TALKING PICTURE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TALKING PICTURE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A movie with synchronized speech and singing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

talkie; talking picture

Hypernyms ("talking picture" 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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