Bioscope

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An early form of movie projector.
  2. 2
    a kind of early movie projector wordnet
  3. 3
    A cinema or movie theatre. Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, South-Africa, dated

    "Like their Western brothers, groups of native youths [in Burma] from out-lying places set out cheerfully on Saturday nights to visit the nearest "Bioscope", as they call the cinema[.]"

  4. 4
    a South African movie theater wordnet

Example

More examples

"Like their Western brothers, groups of native youths [in Burma] from out-lying places set out cheerfully on Saturday nights to visit the nearest "Bioscope", as they call the cinema[.]"

Etymology

From bio- + -scope. Modern use in South Africa is under the influence of Afrikaans bioskoop.

More for "bioscope"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.