cinema

1 a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" [syn: film, celluloid]

2 a theater where films are shown [syn: movie theater, movie theatre, movie house, picture palace]

English

Etymology

From cinéma, shortening of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s) < (kinēma) "movement"

Pronunciation

Noun

1. In the context of "countable}} a film

Cinema (from Greek: kinesis (movement)) can refer to:

• Film, motion pictures or movies
• Movie theater, a building in which films are shown
• Cinema (form Turkiye), Turkish language 'sinema'
• Cinema (magazine), a film magazine in Germany.
• Cinematography, the art of recording visual images
• Cinema 4D, high-end 3D graphics application
• a first album released by ICE MC in 1990
• the album Cinema by Nazareth released in 1986

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