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talkativeness |
talked about |
talkee talkee |
talker |
talker identification |
talkie
| talkily
| talking
| talking book
| talking head
| talking picture
talkie
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun talkie has 1 sense
- talkie(n = noun.communication) talking picture - a movie with synchronized speech and singing; Array is a kind of film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show
OXFORD DICTIONARY
talkie, n. esp. US colloq. a film with a soundtrack, as distinct from a silent film.
Etymology
TALK + -IE, after movie
THESAURUS
talkie
3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talking picture, thriller, trailer, underground film
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