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/ˈtɔːki/ · noun
(informal, dated or historical) A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film..
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
“We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”
"[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts.
Use talkie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Talkie means (informal, dated or historical) A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film..
Common synonyms include talking picture.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.
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