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Definitions for blockbuster
ˈblɒkˌbʌs tərblock·buster

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. blockbusternoun

    a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block)

  2. blockbuster, megahit, smash hitnoun

    an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)

Wiktionary

  1. blockbusternoun

    A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.

  2. blockbusternoun

    Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.

  3. blockbusternoun

    A large firecracker type of fireworks; an M-80.

  4. blockbusteradjective

    An exceptional event.

    There was a blockbuster trade in baseball today.

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  1. blockbuster

    A blockbuster refers to a highly popular, successful, or influential product, especially in entertainment such as film, music, literature, or other types of media. The term originally came from the entertainment industry to describe a highly successful film or theater production that generates an exceptional amount of revenue or breaks various box office records. Nowadays, it can also be applied more broadly to describe any product or service that achieves unexpected and notable success.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of blockbuster in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of blockbuster in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of blockbuster in a Sentence

  1. Sucharita Kodali:

    No doubt Amazon Prime Day will be another blockbuster event for Amazon Music, especially as Amazon Prime Day has increased the length and it seems to be working even harder with suppliers to secure deals and volume.

  2. Kennen MacKay:

    For players that are looking to build an oncology presence, you need to buy a company that already has a blockbuster out there.

  3. Taylor Schreiner:

    We are on track for another blockbuster season for e-commerce.

  4. Ron Wyden:

    If Gilead's approach to pricing is the future of how blockbuster drugs are launched, it will cost billions and billions of dollars to treat just a fraction of patients.

  5. Toby Segar:

    It was skipping a lot of steps in the movie industry, in terms of learning about how they do it, it was a really crazy position to be in, where we have control over these scenes and we have control over certain elements of this blockbuster movie. But it was great for the entire team.

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