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While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
Madhur Bhandarkar

Meaning of "Bollywood" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BOLLYWOOD

From Bo(mbay) + (Ho)llywood.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BOLLYWOOD

Bollywood  [ˈbɒlɪˌwʊd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOLLYWOOD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bollywood is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BOLLYWOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is 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 large Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in multiple languages. Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in India and one of the largest centres of film production in the world. Bollywood is also 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.

Definition of Bollywood in the English dictionary

The definition of Bollywood in the dictionary is the Indian film industry.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BOLLYWOOD


baywood
ˈbeɪˌwʊd
Brentwood
ˈbrɛntˌwʊd
dyewood
ˈdaɪˌwʊd
earlywood
ˈɜːlɪˌwʊd
Fleetwood
ˈfliːtˌwʊd
greenwood
ˈɡriːnˌwʊd
hardwood
ˈhɑːdˌwʊd
Heywood
ˈheɪˌwʊd
Hollywood
ˈhɒlɪˌwʊd
Isherwood
ˈɪshəˌwʊd
ivorywood
ˈaɪvərɪˌwʊd
Kollywood
ˈkɒlɪˌwʊd
Lollywood
ˈlɒlɪˌwʊd
plywood
ˈplaɪˌwʊd
redwood
ˈrɛdˌwʊd
Sherwood
ˈʃɜːˌwʊd
Tollywood
ˈtɒlɪˌwʊd
underwood
ˈʌndəˌwʊd
Westwood
ˈwɛstˌwʊd
whiteywood
ˈwaɪtɪˌwʊd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOLLYWOOD

Bolivian
boliviano
boll
boll weevil
bollard
bollix
bollix up
bollock
bollocking
bollocks
bollworm
bolo
Bologna
bologna sausage
Bolognese

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOLLYWOOD

Atwood
blackwood
candlewood
cottonwood
dogwood
driftwood
Eastwood
elmwood
firewood
from the wood
Goodwood
kingwood
oakwood
out of the wood
pinewood
sandalwood
Wedgwood
Wellywood
wildwood
wood

Synonyms and antonyms of Bollywood in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Bollywood» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BOLLYWOOD

Find out the translation of Bollywood to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Bollywood from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Bollywood» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

宝莱坞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Bollywood
570 millions of speakers

English

Bollywood
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बॉलीवुड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بوليوود
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Болливуд
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Bollywood
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বলিউড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Bollywood
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bollywood
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bollywood
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ボリウッド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

볼리우드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bollywood
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Bollywood
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாலிவுட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बॉलीवुड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bollywood
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Bollywood
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Bollywood
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Боллівуд
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Bollywood
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Bollywood
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Musiek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Bollywood
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Bollywood
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Bollywood

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOLLYWOOD»

The term «Bollywood» is very widely used and occupies the 6.105 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Bollywood».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOLLYWOOD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Bollywood» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Bollywood» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Bollywood

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10 QUOTES WITH «BOLLYWOOD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Bollywood.
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Imtiaz Ali
Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don't believe it, ask your mom!
2
Jyoti Amge
There is a Bollywood actor, Salman Khan, and I'd like to act alongside him - whatever the film.
3
Simon Beaufoy
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
4
Satya Bhabha
I don't know too much about Bollywood at all, but I've done quite a bit of dancing... and not much singing.
5
Madhur Bhandarkar
I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.
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Madhur Bhandarkar
While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
7
Cyrus Broacha
Bollywood is a strange world.
8
Mithun Chakraborty
Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.
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Chiranjeevi
When I went to Spain, the tourism minister told me a lot of people want to come to India, as they love Bollywood, but they don't have direct flights and find it difficult to get visas on arrival that is currently offered to only citizens of nine countries.
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Priyanka Chopra
There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOLLYWOOD»

Discover the use of Bollywood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Bollywood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
1. NOTES. INTRODUCTION. 1 This episode is from March 1996, and the film under production was the Hindi film Duplicate, starring Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla, directed by Mahesh Bhatt, which was released in May 1998. The man in  ...
Tejaswini Ganti, 2013
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Bollywood: Sociology Goes To the Movies
This is done through an interdisciplinary conversation with studies of the cinema drawn from film and media, and cultural studies.
Rajinder Kumar Dudrah, 2006
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Dear Mister Bollywood: How I Fell in Love with India ...
Dear Mister Bollywood is a letter to the most famous man in India, Shah Rukh Khan. This letter spins off into Rina's life story of her struggle to survive and her hunger to succeed, but not at any price.
Rina Golan, 2010
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Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian ...
Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema.
Jigna Desai, 2004
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Bollywood Melodies: A History of the Hindi Film Song
Bollywood Melodies Traces The Evolution Of The Hindi Film Song To Its Present Status As The Cultural Barometer Of The Country, Through An Evaluation Of The Work Of Over Fifty Outstanding Composers, Singers And Lyricists&Mdash;From K.L. ...
Ganesh Anantharaman, 2008
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Bollywood: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Brief description about 70 well known Bollywood stars with coloured pictures if their hit films
Ramesh Dawar, 2006
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King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of ...
Here is the astonishing true story of Bollywood, a sweeping portrait about a country finding its identity, a movie industry that changed the face of India, and one man's struggle to become a star.
Anupama Chopra, 2007
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Bollywood: An Insider's Guide
A unique collection of interviews, reviews and behind the scenes articles selected from the works of Fuad Omar and his writings on the Indian film industry.
Fuad Omar, 2006
9
Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance
This interdisciplinary collection describes the many roots and routes of the Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle.
Sangita Gopal, Sujata Moorti, 2008
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Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, ...
This book is a collection of incisive articles on the interactions between Indian Popular Cinema and the political and cultural ideologies of a new post-Global India.
Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOLLYWOOD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Bollywood is used in the context of the following news items.
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Bollywood weddings of 2014 and 2015
Bollywood actress Minissha Lamba is now married to beau Ryan Tham. The two got had a court marriage on July 6, 2015, which was followed by a grand lunch. «Times of India, Jul 15»
2
'O Meri Zohra Jabeen': Bollywood songs mark PM Narendra Modi's …
Official foreign engagements of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are often marked by two things: his personal taste and a distinct flavour of India ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
3
Bollywood celebs' favorite TV shows to promote their films
Salman Khan to be seen in 'Badtameez Dil'?: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who is anxiously awaiting the release of his forthcoming film 'Bajrangi ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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When Bollywood celebs found soulmates in arranged marriage
Bollywood stars are known for immortalising die-hard lovers on the big-screen but in real life many of them choose the traditional way of matrimony. The latest ... «Mid-Day, Jul 15»
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5 bollywood Celebrities and their happy travel moments
If you're wondering where Bollywood actors go to relax and rejuvenate, then have a look at the five Indian celebrities share their favourite travel ... «India Today, Jul 15»
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Behind Bollywood's Women
As the Mumbai-based designer modestly puts it, his label may be only a decade old, but his association with Bollywood is in its landmark 25th ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
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Kunal Kapoor looking for solid meaty roles in Bollywood
Bollywood actor Kunal Kapoor, who was recently spotted at the 6th Jagran film festival in New Delhi at the screening of 'Kaun Kitne PaMein', ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
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10 Romantic Bollywood dialogues and their real world meaning
Bollywood is known to have some beautiful and moving dialogues that are utterly romantic. While it's almost dream like to hear those honey ... «Bollywood Hungama, Jul 15»
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Bollywood Live Wire Ranveer Singh Turns 30
MUMBAI — Ranveer Singh, the unofficial live wire of Bollywood, turned 30 July 6 and his Bollywood colleagues, including close friend Arjun ... «India West, Jul 15»
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Gautham Kurup to enter Bollywood with 'Bhanwarey'
Chennai: Actor Gautham Kurup, known for his work in southern films such as 'Thuppakki', 'Kandahar' and 'Nerungi Vaa Muthamidathe', ... «IBNLive, Jul 15»

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