cinema
Plural: cinemas
Noun
- A movie theater; the art or industry of motion pictures.
- a medium that disseminates moving pictures
- "this story would be good cinema"
- a theater where films are shown
- A movie theatre, a movie house
- Films collectively.
- The film and movie industry.
- The art of making films and movies; cinematography
- A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
- A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
- Any media or event that is exemplary.
Examples
- Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.
- His Scrabble play was a cinematic masterpiece, ending with a triple word score.
- In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].
- That game was absolute cinema.
- The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.
- Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.
Synonyms
celluloid, film, movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, picture palace, kino#Etymology 2, moviehouse, movies, pictures, seventh art
Scrabble Score: 10
cinema: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcinema: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cinema: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary