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

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

We had expected to see the whole surface of the Mediterranean almost as busy as State and Madison, or Broadway and Forty-second—craft of all descriptions criss-crossing the blue ripples, a continuous aquatic bioscope.

From In Pastures New by George Ade

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

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