CINEMA

cinema, movie theater, movie theatre, movie house, picture palace

(noun) a theater where films are shown

film, cinema, celluloid

(noun) a medium that disseminates moving pictures; ā€œtheater pieces transferred to celluloidā€; ā€œthis story would be good cinemaā€; ā€œfilm coverage of sporting eventsā€

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

cinema (countable and uncountable, plural cinemas)

(countable) A movie theatre, a movie house

Synonyms: movie theatre (rare), movie theater (chiefly US), movie house (chiefly US), pictures (regional, dated)

(film, uncountable) Films collectively.

(film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.

(film, uncountable) The art of making films and movies; cinematography

Synonym: seventh art

Anagrams

• Mencia, anemic, came in, iceman

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ā€˜the father of the brideā€™ instead of ā€˜the brideā€™s fatherā€™


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