cinematheque

[ sin-uh-muh-tek ]

noun
  1. a movie theater, often part of a university or private archive, showing experimental or historically important films.

Origin of cinematheque

1
First recorded in1965–70; from French cinémathèque “film archive,” equivalent to cinéma- prefixal use of cinéma “films” + -thèque “things collected,” as in bibliothèque “library,” discothèque “collection of phonograph records”; see cinema, theca
  • Also cin·é·ma·thèque [French see-ney-ma-tek]. /French si neɪ maˈtɛk/.

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British Dictionary definitions for cinematheque

cinematheque

/ (ˌsɪnɪməˈtɛk) /


noun
  1. a small intimate cinema

Origin of cinematheque

1
C20: from French cinémathèque film library, from cinema + (biblio) thèque library

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