Definitions for Bollywood
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.8 / 9 votes

1. Bollywoodnoun

   the film industry of India

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1. Bollywoodnoun

   The Indian film industry located in Mumbai.

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1. Bollywood

   Bollywood is a song by American recording artist Liz Phair. The song was her first release after breaking from Capitol Records and Dave Matthews' record label, ATO Records, and discusses the discrimination and bureaucracy present in the music industry. It was released as the lead single from her sixth album, Funstyle, and was subject to negative reviews from critics, who criticized Phair's vocal performance and the production.

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1. bollywood

   Bollywood is a term used to refer to the Indian Hindi-language film industry that is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is one of the largest centers of film production in the world. The term "Bollywood" is often used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema, although technically it refers only to the Hindi-language sector. This industry is characterized by its lengthly feature films with an emphasis on music and dancing sequences, melodramatic storylines, and a large number of characters.

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1. Bollywood

   Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; however, it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in multiple languages. Bollywood is the largest film producer in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world. Bollywood is formally referred to as Hindi cinema. There has been a growing presence of Indian English in dialogue and songs as well. It is common to see films that feature dialogue with English words, phrases, or even whole sentences.

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1. • Film Industry

Usage in printed sourcesFrom: 

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How to pronounce Bollywood?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Bollywood in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Bollywood in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Bollywood in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Bollywood in a Sentence

1. Anwar Kazmi:

   We contacted the Indian High Commission twice in 2011. People from the High Commission visited her in Karachi, took her particulars, but nothing came of it, now, thanks to a Bollywood blockbuster, there is hope.

2. Lakshheish M Patel:

   People had seen how CHIT FUND turned out to be a scam and fraud and how the same was promoted by greedy bollywood celebrities and cricketers for money purpose. Now the same CHIT FUND seems to have taken a new avtaar of MUTUAL FUND n SIP

3. Vijay Dhar:

   Bollywood and Kashmir have a long connection.

4. Gitesh Pandya:

   This could be huge for the years ahead, not only for Priyanka but for other stars out of Bollywood, because Hollywood does have a copycat mentality, so when something works, competitors want to do the same thing.

5. Charu Khurana:

   There are now more than 500 female make-up artists practising in Bollywood.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Bollywood
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bollywood
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Bollywood
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Bollywood