movie
Plural: movies
Noun
- A motion picture, typically shown in a cinema or on television.
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- "they went to a movie every Saturday night"
- A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film.
- A cinema; a movie theatre.
- Any event, especially one that is unpleasant or tiresome.
- An extremely fun and exciting experience.
Examples
- After an intense game of Words With Friends, they decided to relax by watching a movie.
- Don't worry; this isn't the first time I've been through this movie.
- Every night with you is a movie!
- He is watching a crime-thriller movie.
- Let's go to the movies.
Origin / Etymology
From moving (picture) + -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908), originally in American English.
Synonyms
film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, picture, picture show, photoplay
Scrabble Score: 10
movie: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmovie: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
movie: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary