movie
- motion picture.
- motion-picture theater (often preceded by the): The movie is next-door to the hardware store.
- movies,
- motion pictures, as an industry (usually preceded by the): The movies have had to raise prices.
- motion pictures, as a genre of art or entertainment: gangster movies.
- the exhibition of a motion pictures: an evening at the movies.
Origin of movie
Related Words for movie
flick, picture, show, cinema, feature, film, videotape, celluloid, screenplay, talkie, silent, cine, cinematics, cinematograph, photoplayExamples from the Web for movie
Contemporary Examples of movie
Music is a huge part of the tone of Black Dynamite overall—going back to the original 2009 movie on which the series is based.
Have there been discussions with FX regarding an Archer movie, and how do you think that would play out?
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We did a movie down in Durango — Great Scout and Cat House Thursday.
I remember that after the movie, people were saying how depressing it was, and I started an argument with them.
When he does, here is a gentleness in his voice, a reflective and lovely quality that no movie he has been in has ever captured.
Historical Examples of movie
There is always some stray silver in the bead bag of a movie patron.
I tried to lure my landlady out to a movie, but she thriftily refused.
Jane Journeys OnRuth Comfort Mitchell
When Arnold Hatch asked her to go to a movie she shook her head, usually.
GigoloEdna Ferber
Which was just where, like most movie uncles, he overdid the part.
Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
Now if this was a movie play we was dopin' out it would be simple.
Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
movie
- an informal word for film (def. 1)
- (as modifier)movie ticket
Word Origin for movie
Word Origin and History for movie
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.