picturedom
nounEtymology From picture (“a motion picture”) + -dom.
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Synonym of filmdom (“the film or movie industry; the people who work in that industry”).
- As the industry today stands, so does "Ben Hur" stand: the greatest achievement that has been accomplished on the screen for not only the screen itself, but for all modern picturedom.2002, Neil A. Hamilton, editor, Lifetimes: The Great War to the Stock Market Crash, Westport, C.T.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 199, column 1: