bioscope

American  

[bahy-uh-skohp] / ˈbaɪ əˌskoʊp /

noun

1. an early form of motion-picture projector, used about 1900.

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bioscope British  

/ ˈbaɪəˌskəʊp /

noun

1. a kind of early film projector

2. a South African word for cinema

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Etymology

Origin of bioscope

First recorded in 1895–1900; bio- + -scope

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Example Sentences

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bioscope

In becoming a movie house, the Olympic reverts to the building's previous life as Byfield Hall, a historic entertainment venue whose attractions included the bioscope, an early form of cinema.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2013

Or rather, back of the "bioscope," a word for the cinema in South Africa in the old days.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2013

It was as though he were a spectator of a bioscope drama, standing in darkness while a scene was being pictured for him in remorseless detail behind the lighted window.

From Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg

Yesterday this would have been to him nothing but a dead bioscope picture; now, though he still sat an onlooker in the pit, it was a living human drama at which he gazed.

From The Seventh Noon by Edmund Frederick

"So this is the kind of bioscope the master wanted me to see!"

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

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