movie theater

[moo-vee thee-uh-ter]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of movie theater¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

“Taylor Swift can redefine how the movie theater can be used to promote her music, her career, and her public persona,” Dergarabedian said.

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As memories of a war that killed millions in China fade, the new approaches are stretching beyond movie theaters.

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It turns out they’ve admired each other’s work for years, and now together have produced “Remain,” which arrives on bookshelves next week and lands in movie theaters next October.

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She knows it’s hard to get people out to movie theaters, especially for a film that asks these kinds of thorny questions.

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In those days, movie theaters carried the fights on their big screens and produced a lion’s share of the profits.

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Related Words

• cinema 
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• multiplex