Meanings
- A certain brand of photographic slide film, which is no longer manufactured.
DYSART: ... [Pause.] Then in the morning, I put away my books on the cultural shelf, close up the kodachrome snaps of Mount Olympus, touch my reproduction statue of Dionysus for luck—and go off to hospital to treat him for insanity. Do you see?
1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 25”, in Equus, pages 81-2
Origin
A trademark; by surface analysis, blend of Kodak + chromo- + chrome, connoting its selling points: brilliant colors and affordable luxury.
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Kodachrome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kodachrome
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