movie theater

[ moo-vee thee-uh-ter ]

/ ˈmu vi ˌθi ə tər /

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noun

a building or part of a building having seating for an audience and a large screen for showing movies.

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Also called mov·ie house

[moo-vee hous] /ˈmu vi ˌhaʊs/ .

Origin of movie theater

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby movie theater

movie film, moviegoing, movieland, moviemaker, movieoke, movie theater, Movietone, moving, moving average, moving coil, moving picture

How to use movie theater in a sentence

He picked her up in his truck, and they went to a matinee at an empty movie theater.
Date Lab: One of our setups is still going strong two years later. We caught up with Willie and Renee for an update.|Marin Cogan|February 11, 2021|Washington Post
When you shut down Broadway, when you shut down movie theaters, then you stop an entire industry.
Arts in New York to get shot in the arm with celebrity-filled pop-up shows|Peter Marks|February 8, 2021|Washington Post
So does the movie theater chain suffering from the pandemic.
In 2021 everyone gets 15 minutes of wealth|Alex Wilhelm|February 2, 2021|TechCrunch
The movie theater, after all, is located in a metro area so small that its nearest big city, Winnipeg, is five hours away in Canada.
Forget investors: AMC itself may have been bailed out by the actions of wallstreetbets|Steven Zeitchik|February 2, 2021|Washington Post

With movie theaters closed for much of the year, release dates were bumped.
Pop culture countdown: Iconic and ignominious|Joey DiGuglielmo|December 30, 2020|Washington Blade
It has killed over 200 people on screen, plenty of cinematic conventions regarding good taste, and at least one movie theater.
How to Save Silent Movies: Inside New Jersey’s Cinema Paradiso|Rich Goldstein|October 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A movie theater in Georgia showing the film PT 109 decorated its marquee with this message: “See how the Japs almost got Kennedy.”
A Brief History of Wingnuts in America; From George Washington to Woodstock|John Avlon|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The result would have been pandemonium; I could be married at the movie theater but not at the bar afterward.
Why Progressives Just Woke Up and Killed ENDA|Jay Michaelson|July 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As they walked by a movie theater, 28-year-old Dwayne Buckle yelled something at the group.
‘Out in the Night’ and the Redemption of the ‘Killer Lesbian Gang'|Nina Strochlic|June 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In a darkened movie theater, we allow filmmakers to deliver into our minds a false world to envisage.
The Science of Weepies: Why We Love Crying at the Movies|Elizabeth Picciuto|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But it seems to me there was two of us, and I think we were at a movie theater, as my mind goes on.
Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Irkundisyun ang sinihan, The movie theater is air-conditioned.
A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan|John U. Wolff
The Blue and Orange—it was the only movie theater in town—was almost full when the boys arrived.
The Plastic Age|Percy Marks
But in the darkness of the movie theater he brooded that he'd "gone and tied himself up to Myra all over again."
Babbitt|Sinclair Lewis
Do they go past the drug store and past the most popular movie theater?
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant|Harold Whitehead

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