cinema
Americannoun
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movies collectively, as an art.
During the Great Depression, cinema provided psychological comfort, an escape from the harsh realities of daily life.
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Chiefly British. Also kinema movie theater.
Do you know if there is a cinema near the British Museum?
noun
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a place designed for the exhibition of films
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( as modifier )
a cinema seat
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the art or business of making films
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films collectively
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Other Word Forms
- cinematic adjective
- cinematically adverb
Etymology
Origin of cinema
First recorded in 1895–1900; short for cinematograph
Example Sentences
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The Voice of Hind Rajab is out in UK cinemas now.
From BBC
Mercy is in UK cinemas from Friday 23 January.
From BBC
The two World Wars devastated the European cinema, along with so much else on the continent.
In the summer of 2002, I was an excited teenager buying a cinema ticket to 28 Days Later, the new British zombie film everyone was talking about.
From BBC
It was only after the 2011 revolution that he decided to take on cinema, a goal since childhood.
From Barron's
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