Cinema
WordNet
noun
(1) A theater where films are shown
(2) A medium that disseminates moving pictures
"Theater pieces transferred to celluloid"
"This story would be good cinema"
"Film coverage of sporting events"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From cinéma, shortening of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s) < (kinēma) "movement"
Noun
- a film
- a movie theatre, a movie house
- The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.
- film or movies as a group
- Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.
- the film and movie industry
- In the long history of Spanish cinema....
- the art of making films and movies
- Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers....
Synonyms
- film, movie (chiefly US)
- movie theatre (rare), movie theater (chiefly US), movie house (chiefly US), pictures (regional, dated)
- seventh art (the art of making films and movies)
Etymology
From <
Noun
- (art and industry) cinema
- (movie theatre) cinema, movie theater, film theatre
Related terms
- cine-
- cinegiornale
- cinema d'animazione
- cinema d'essai
- cinema muto
- cinema sonoro
- cinemateatro
- cinematico
- cinematografia
- cineparcheggio