cinema.
A movie theatre, a movie house.
Meaning & usage
A movie theatre, a movie house.
The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.
Films collectively.
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; cinematography.
Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].
A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema. Any media or event that is exemplary.
That game was absolute cinema.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂-der. Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μα (-ma) Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos)bor. Latin -graphuslbor. French -graphe French cinématographeclip. French cinémabor. English cinema 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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