Soundtrack
nounThe recorded music and audio accompanying a film, show, or game, often released as an album.
How to spell soundtrack
10 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce soundtrack
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does soundtrack mean?
- nounThe recorded music and audio accompanying a film, show, or game, often released as an album.
Soundtrack in a sentence
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The film's haunting soundtrack stayed with her for days.
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He bought the soundtrack album the week the movie opened.
Where does soundtrack come from?
Language of origin: Germanic
This is a modern English compound formed from two native words: 'sound', from the Old English 'son' route by way of Old French 'son' and ultimately Latin 'sonus' meaning a noise or tone, and 'track', which came through Old French 'trac' for a trail or mark. The combination arose in the early days of cinema, in the late 1920s, when films gained synchronised audio. Engineers literally printed the audio as a narrow optical strip, a 'track', running alongside the picture frames on the film stock. From that physical band of recorded sound the word soon broadened to mean the music and audio of a film, and then the album of that music sold separately. The spelling is simply the two whole words joined, so the only real trap is remembering it is one closed word rather than two.
How the word is built
- sound (audio)
- track (recorded strip or band)
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