slideshow

noun

slide·​show ˈslīd-ˌshō 

variants or slide show

plural slideshows or slide shows

1

: a presentation of photographic slides (see slide entry 2 sense 5b) projected on a surface or displayed on a screen one after another

She projected a slideshow from her mother's archive against a muslin sheet that she also drew on, putting a layered landscape in the top left corner, and then she hung a painting her mother never finished in the walk-in closet.

—Catherine Wagley

Seniors were all gathered in the auxiliary gym for lunch, where a dozen or so giant sandwiches from Subway were laid out for them along with cake as they watched a slideshow of their classmates' pictures from when they were toddlers.

—Sam Craig

2

: a collection of electronic images (as on a website) presented to be viewed one after another

Click through the attached slideshow for more information on the 15+ small businesses that will be part of the Sherman Phoenix.

—The Milwaukee Business Journal

Examples of slideshow in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

However, his daughter's profile features a slideshow of a beagle, presumably her pet or a family dog. —Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025

The second page of a State Attorney Office’s slideshow for the FWC on vessel homicides gives the hotline number for the prosecutors. —Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025

Moretz flashed her sparkling rock again in another one of her Instagram slideshows posted on June 27, 2024. —Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025

Start slideshow: 10 Oversold Dividend Stocks » But making PepsiCo an even more interesting and timely stock to look at, is the fact that in trading on Thursday, shares of PEP entered into oversold territory, changing hands as low as $152.04 per share. —Dividend Channel, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined at sense 1