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cinema
[ sin-uh-muh ]
noun
- movies collectively, as an art:
During the Great Depression, cinema provided psychological comfort, an escape from the harsh realities of daily life.
- Also Older Spelling, kin·e·ma []. Chiefly British. movie theater:
Do you know if there is a cinema near the British Museum?
cinema
/ ˈsɪnɪmə; ˌsɪnɪˈmætɪk /
noun
- a place designed for the exhibition of films
- ( as modifier )
a cinema seat
- the cinema
- the art or business of making films
- films collectively
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Derived Forms
- cinematic, adjective
- ˌcineˈmatically, adverb
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Other Words From
- cin·e·mat·ic [sin-, uh, -, mat, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cinema1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cinema1
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Example Sentences
The Second Republic was also considered the another golden age for Korean Cinema.
In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.
President Park understood the power of cinema as propaganda.
Cinema Services gave him the heads-up that Sony was going forward with the December 25 release.
As it is, she had the greatest difficulty in keeping them, because there's no cinema near.
It is true that I had never been to the cinema before I married him, and I am not sure that it was not his first time, too.
I cannot pretend to have learned much about the cinema on such a brief visit, but I acquired a few facts.
In the years immediately preceding the war the cinema demands an evergrowing if not altogether appreciative attention.
The post-office is an annexe of the grocer's where the sardines come from on Jane's cinema evening.
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