Meaning

2 senses
  1. (dated, historical, informal)A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.

    Tonfilm

  2. (dated, historical)A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.

More definitions
  • a movie with synchronized speech and singing

Examples

26 sentences
  1. Tom switched off his walkie-talkie.

    ruТом выключил свою рацию. — odexed

  2. Tom put the walkie-talkie down.

  3. Tom switched his walkie-talkie off.

  4. Tom picked up the walkie-talkie and started talking.

  5. We came to the conclusion that he had a walkie-talkie.

    Ми прийшли до висновку, що він мав рацію. — User55521

    ruМы пришли к выводу, что у него была рация. — User55521

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
movie with sound:

Origin

Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.

Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.

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Forms

plural: talkies
Singulartalkie
Pluraltalkies

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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