Soundtrack

Quick meaning: Soundtrack is a noun meaning A narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures.

Meaning

A narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures.

More Meanings

1. The sound (especially the music) component of a movie, video game, etc.
2. A recording of such music for sale.
3. A background sound that is part of a larger event.
4. (transitive) To provide, or to act as, the sound or music component of a film.

Example Sentences

The world, in turn, watched, clicked, cried, danced, sang along, swooned, caravanned to stadiums and movie theaters, let her work soundtrack their lives.

There was a startling lack of creativity and if Van Gaal had listened closely he would have made out the mocking chants from the away end, as the visiting fans embarked on the repertoire of songs that formed the soundtrack to David Moyes’s time in the job.

Word Forms

• soundtracks
• soundtracking
• soundtracked
• sound-track

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include audiotape, audio, lp, music, tape, album.

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