Hollywood

plural Hollywoods

1. countableuncountableA neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California, known as the center of the American motion picture industry.

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   An automobile leaving Los Angeles and going westward over the splendid boulevard called "Sunset"—one of the main arteries of travel in the southwest—and a little northerly, will soon arrive at the sea-coast, or, in other words, at the beach resorts of Los Angeles. The district passed over in going to these beaches has been named Hollywood. It is a part of Los Angeles. The community, grown like a mushroom, now holds one hundred thousand souls, ten thousand of which are directly interested in the motion picture business. The main thoroughfare in Hollywood is called Hollywood Boulevard. It is a comparatively short street, branching off from Sunset Boulevard and running thereafter two blocks from Sunset and parallel to it. At the intersection of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards still stands, though it is about to be obliterated owing to a recent fire, a wooden building, not large and not spacious, labelled with the title, Chester A. Bennett Studios,—a building that has some history attached to it, since it was originally the home of David Wark Griffith's activities, among the earliest in recent Hollywood history.

   1924, Marilynn Conners, “That Fascinating Hollywood”, in What Chance Have I in Hollywood? Intimate Information Concerning the Movie Capital of the World, Famous Authors Imprint, page 15

   Synonyms: Hollywoodland

2. countablemetonymicallyuncountableThe American motion picture industry, regardless of location.

   Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.

   2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2025

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   Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

   2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023, page 55

   Synonyms: Hollywoodland

3. Other places in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA town in Jackson County, Alabama.
   2. countableuncountableA neighborhood and historic district in Homewood, Jefferson County, Alabama.
   3. countableuncountableA city in Broward County, Florida.

      FLL is located between Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood.

      2020 January 7, Rebecca Wallwork, “Which South Florida airport should I fly into?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026

   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Habersham County, Georgia.
   5. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland, named for a large holly tree.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community and township in Carver County, Minnesota.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Tunica County, Mississippi.
   8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Dunklin County, Missouri.
   9. countableuncountableA neighborhood of Ruidoso, Lincoln County, New Mexico.
   10. countableuncountableA neighborhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
   11. countableuncountableA neighborhood of Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
   12. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
   13. countableuncountableA town in Charleston County, South Carolina.
   14. countableuncountableA neighborhood in north Memphis, Tennessee.
   15. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Appomattox County, Virginia.
   16. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
   17. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Monroe County, West Virginia.
   18. countableuncountableFormer name of MacArthur, West Virginia.
4. countableuncountableA village in west County Wicklow, Ireland.
5. countableuncountableA village in Wythall parish, Bromsgrove district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP0877).
6. countableuncountableA barangay of Guiuan, Eastern Samar, Philippines.
7. countableuncountableA nickname for someone involved with the film industry or celebrity culture.
8. countableuncountableA surname

comparative more Hollywood · superlative most Hollywood

1. Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie industry.

   What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war?

   2007, Jason Isbell, Dress Blues

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   As many critics pointed out, the timely (but mostly tame and light) comedy was not too controversial, but too popular, too American, and too Hollywood to headline a festival that was scheduled to screen the likes of Robert Bresson's Un Feme Douce, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Gai Savior, Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's, Agnes Varda's Lion's Love, Paola Pier Pasolini's Pigpen, and Bo Widenberg's Adelen '31.

   2002, Jon E. Lewis, Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry, pages 168–169

   The film is at once too Hollywood and too realistic. It is tied to genre conventions while stylistically following the new code of realism, especially with regard to mise-en-scène and performance.

   2013, Marc Raymond, Hollywood's New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese, page 68

2. Of or characteristic of a Hollywood film.

   A Time reporter called Reagan "Hollywood handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance", a candidate who had "rattled political seismographs from coast to coast."

   2002, Kirse Granat May, Golden State, Golden Youth

plural Hollywoods

1. A waxing practice that removes all of the pubic hair, unlike a Brazilian which leaves a small strip behind.

   If you ask the woman who does your waxing she will tell you that everyone is asking for Brazilians or Hollywoods, including Gwyneth Paltrow […]

   2009, Shane Watson, How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas

present singular third person Hollywoods · participle present Hollywooding · participle past Hollywooded · past Hollywooded

1. To engage in Hollywooding (various senses).