"short film" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: short films [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} short film (plural short films)
  1. Any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film. Wikipedia link: short film Categories (topical): Cinematography, Film Related terms: feature film Translations (motion picture): կարճամետրաժ ֆիլմ (karčametraž film) (Armenian), curtmetratge [masculine] (Catalan), curt [masculine] (Catalan), 短片 (duǎnpiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), kortfilm [common-gender] (Danish), filmeto (Esperanto), lyhytelokuva (Finnish), lyhytfilmi (Finnish), lyhäri (Finnish), court métrage [masculine] (French), curtametraxe [feminine] (Galician), curta [feminine] (Galician), მოკლემეტრაჟიანი ფილმი (moḳlemeṭražiani pilmi) (Georgian), Kurzfilm [masculine] (German), ταινία μικρού μήκους (tainía mikroú míkous) [feminine] (Greek), kisfilm (Hungarian), film pendek (Indonesian), cortometraggio [masculine] (Italian), 短編映画 (Japanese), 단편 영화 (danpyeon yeonghwa) (Korean), kortfilm [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), film krótkometrażowy [masculine] (Polish), curta-metragem [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), curta [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), scurt metraj [neuter] (Romanian), film de scurt metraj [neuter] (Romanian), короткометра́жный фильм (korotkometrážnyj filʹm) [masculine] (Russian), cortometraje [masculine] (Spanish), corto [masculine] (Spanish), kortfilm [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "motion picture",
      "word": "film pendek"
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      "word": "短編映画"
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      "word": "단편 영화"
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