Celluloid

Quick meaning: Celluloid is a noun meaning Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.

Meaning

Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively, often used attributively) The genre of cinema; film.
2. (obsolete) An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.

Example Sentences

Celluloid railway comedy was hardly to appear again until the mid-thirties and, later, in Britain.

'What with that bearded Assyrian bull in London, and this Thug down here, who has ruined my clean celluloid, you seem to be keeping queer company, Ted Malone.'

"And will you now, sir, take off your celluloid collar and permit me to burn it in the candle? Thank you, sir. And will you allow me to smash your spectacles for you with my hammer? Thank you."

In particular, they set Kerouac and Ginsberg to the specifications of an emergent superficial form—celluloid antiheroes—attractive to those in want of adventure and who would soon be reading On the Road (1957).

Word Forms

• celluloids

Synonyms for celluloid

Depending on context, synonyms include unreal, artificial, synthetic, film, cinema.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include film, synthetic, cinema, artificial, unreal, nitrocellulose.

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