What does blockbuster mean?
Definitions for blockbuster
ˈblɒkˌbʌs tərblock·buster
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Princeton's WordNet
blockbusternoun
a large bomb used to demolish extensive areas (as a city block)
blockbuster, megahit, smash hitnoun
an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel)
Wiktionary
blockbusternoun
A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
blockbusternoun
Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
blockbusternoun
A large firecracker type of fireworks; an M-80.
blockbusteradjective
An exceptional event.
There was a blockbuster trade in baseball today.
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blockbuster
A blockbuster refers to a highly popular, successful, or influential product, especially in entertainment such as film, music, literature, or other types of media. The term originally came from the entertainment industry to describe a highly successful film or theater production that generates an exceptional amount of revenue or breaks various box office records. Nowadays, it can also be applied more broadly to describe any product or service that achieves unexpected and notable success.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of blockbuster in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of blockbuster in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of blockbuster in a Sentence
You have a generation of women who have rarely seen themselves presented on screen in a big heroic blockbuster like this before, that matters.
When that blockbuster drug comes, a test like this is what we're all looking for.
'Godfather' was the first that I remember, movie, that was like a big blockbuster, then came other movies. I might have this wrong, like some of the Spielberg films and so on, but when ['The Godfather: Part II'] came, I said this might be a good chance that it'll be a success.
You got to wait and see! But I will say that it was such a blockbuster season that it would be my hope that it would remain, somehow, some way, intact...I hope everybody's back.
Abortion, gun rights and affirmative action would be monumental. That said, there, in those cases, particularly in the abortion case and in the gun case, there are ways they could decide the more broadly or more narrowly, so part of the blockbuster nature of the term will depend on whether they really go very far and say, overrule Roe v. Wade, or simply narrow it in the abortion case.
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Translations for blockbuster
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- блокбъстърBulgarian
- trhákCzech
- Verkaufsschlager, Kassenknüller, Hit, Blockbuster, KnüllerGerman
- taquillera, taquillazo, revientacuadrasSpanish
- korttelipommi, jymymenestysFinnish
- blockbusterFrench
- kasszasikerHungarian
- successo commercialeItalian
- ブロックバスターJapanese
- 블록버스터Korean
- блокбастер, эң кубаттуу фугас бомбаKyrgyz
- kaskrakerDutch
- arrasa-quarteirãoPortuguese
- блокбастер, фугасная бомбаRussian
- kvartersbomb, knallsucceSwedish
- блокбастерUkrainian
- 重磅炸彈Chinese
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