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Cinema

//ˈsɪn.ə.mə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A movie theatre, a movie house. countable

    "The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant."

  2. 2
    a theater where films are shown wordnet
  3. 3
    Films collectively. uncountable

    "Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema."

  4. 4
    a medium that disseminates moving pictures wordnet
  5. 5
    The film and movie industry. uncountable

    "In the long history of Spanish cinema[…]."

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  1. 6
    The art of making films and movies; cinematography. countable, uncountable

    "Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…]."

  2. 7
    A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema. Internet, uncountable
  3. 8
    A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.; Any media or event that is exemplary. Internet, broadly, countable, humorous, uncountable

    "That game was absolute cinema."

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.

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