Meanings
plural megahits
- A large success or hit.First known use 20th c.
We settle on our target: a group of women riding around on a Manhattan tour bus and visiting sites featured in HBO's '90s megahit Sex and the City.
2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties1 more example
[Jean] Twenge […] isn’t necessarily a household name like her sometimes collaborator Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of the megahit “The Anxious Generation,” which has spent 75 weeks hovering near the top of the New York Times best-seller list.
2025 September 6, Catherine Pearson, “She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2025
Synonyms & antonyms
nounan unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
- Proto-Hellenic*mégas
- Ancient Greekμέγᾰς (mégăs)
- Englishmega-
- Englishhit
- Englishmegahit
Translations
Finnish megahitti
- megahittilarge success or hit
German Megahit
- Megahitlarge success or hit
Cite this entry
megahit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megahit
“megahit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megahit. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “megahit,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megahit.
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