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movie

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noun

motion picture.
motion-picture theater (often preceded by the): The movie is next-door to the hardware store.
movies,
  1. motion pictures, as an industry (usually preceded by the): The movies have had to raise prices.
  2. motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment: gangster movies.
  3. the exhibition of a motion pictures: an evening at the movies.

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RELATED WORDS

flick, picture, show, cinema, feature, film, videotape, celluloid, screenplay, talkie, silent, cine, cinematics, cinematograph, photoplay

Nearby words

  1. movelessly,
  2. movement,
  3. mover,
  4. mover and shaker,
  5. movers and shakers,
  6. movie camera,
  7. movie film,
  8. movie house,
  9. movie theater,
  10. moviedom

Origin of movie

First recorded in 1905–10; mov(ing picture) + -ie
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British Dictionary definitions for movie

movie

noun

  1. an informal word for film (def. 1)
  2. (as modifier)movie ticket

Word Origin for movie

C20: from mov (ing picture) + -ie
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Word Origin and History for movie

movie

n.

1912 (perhaps 1908), shortened form of moving picture in the cinematographic sense (1896). As an adjective from 1913. Movie star attested from 1913. Another early name for it was photoplay.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper