cinema
Meaning
- A movie theatre, a movie house
- Films collectively.
- The film and movie industry.
- The art of making films and movies; cinematography
- A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
- A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
Synonyms
movie house
movie industry
movie screen
picture show
picture-palace
film theatre
talking movie
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɪn.ə.mə/
Etymology
Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.
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