movie

[moo-vee]

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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.

Origin of movie

First recorded in 1905–10; mov(ing picture) + -ie

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Related Words for movie

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

Examples 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.
‘Black Dynamite’ Presents Police Brutality: The Musical
Stereo Williams
January 9, 2015
Have there been discussions with FX regarding an Archer movie, and how do you think that would play out?
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS
Marlow Stern
January 8, 2015
We did a movie down in Durango — Great Scout and Cat House Thursday.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile
Robert Ward
January 3, 2015
I remember that after the movie, people were saying how depressing it was, and I started an argument with them.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile
Robert Ward
January 3, 2015
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.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile
Robert Ward
January 3, 2015

Historical Examples of movie

There is always some stray silver in the bead bag of a movie patron.
The Best Short Stories of 1920
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I tried to lure my landlady out to a movie, but she thriftily refused.
Jane Journeys On
Ruth Comfort Mitchell
When Arnold Hatch asked her to go to a movie she shook her head, usually.
Gigolo
Edna Ferber
Which was just where, like most movie uncles, he overdid the part.
Torchy and Vee
Sewell Ford
Now if this was a movie play we was dopin' out it would be simple.
Torchy and Vee
Sewell Ford

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

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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.