Meanings
- informalnot comparablePornographic.First known use the 1950s
That's a porno film.
2 more examples
For reasons that still baffle me, “Deep Throat” became the one porno film in New York chic to see and to seen at, even before the court case, even before Earl Wilson wrote about it.
1973 January 21, Vincent Canby, “What Are We To Think of ‘Deep Throat’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN[…]ultra-risqué pictures verging on the pornographic (the most porno of the last-named have not yet made it to the TV screen, but they are getting there fast—witness the storm of protests over the situation comedy “Soap”).
1978, Mario Pei, Weasel Words: The Art of Saying what You Don't Mean, page 15Synonyms: porn
plural pornos
- informaluncountablePornography.
In any case, porno is littered—porno is heaped—with the deaths of feelings.
2004, Martin Amis, Vintage Amis, page 190
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePornographic.
More synonyms by meaning
nouncreative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Clipping of pornographic or pornography. Attested from mid-20th century.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 色情, 春宮 /春宫
- 色情 (sèqíng)pornography
- 春宮 /春宫 (chūngōng)pornography
Danish porno, pornofilm
- pornopornography
- pornofilmpornographic film
Dutch porno, pornografie
- pornopornography
- pornografiepornography
Finnish porno, pornografia
- pornopornography
- pornografiapornography
French porno
- pornopornography
German Porno, Pornografie
- Pornopornography
- Pornografiepornography
Greek πορνό
- πορνό (pornó)pornography
Italian porno
- pornopornography
Portuguese porno, pornô
- pornopornography
- pornôpornography
- pornopornographic film
- pornôpornographic film
Russian порногра́фия, порну́ха
- порногра́фия (pornográfija)pornography
- порну́ха (pornúxa)pornography
- порну́шка (pornúška)pornography
- по́рно (pórno)pornography
Spanish porno, nopor
- pornopornography
- noporpornography
- noporpornographic film
Swedish porr
- porrpornography
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with porno
All rhymes →Anagrams
Cite this entry
porno. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porno
“porno.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porno. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “porno,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/porno.
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