picture show vs film noir

film noir vs picture show

picture show and film noir both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
picture show	Yes	No	No	No
film noir	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, film noir is a hyponym of picture show; that is, film noir is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than picture show:

picture show: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
film noir: a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters

Other hyponyms of picture show include telefilm, feature, feature film, final cut, home movie, collage film, coming attraction, shoot-'em-up, short subject, docudrama, documentary, documentary film, infotainment, cinema verite, skin flick, rough cut, silent movie, silent picture, silents, slow motion, talkie, talking picture, 3-D, 3D, three-D, musical, musical comedy, musical theater, co-production, family film, family movie.

picture show (noun)	film noir (noun)
a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement	a movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical characters

Difference between picture show and film noir

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