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Kino

//ˈkiːnəʊ// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Grand, cinematic, especially in regards to cinema or other cultural media. Internet

    "This game is absolutely kino."

Noun
  1. 1
    A botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus), Butea, and Pterocarpus, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Especially good or sophisticated cinema. Internet, uncountable, usually

    "Man, I hate Marvel movies, but Scorsese, now that's some real kino."

  3. 3
    Physical contact with another person, touch. uncountable

    "I noticed, however, that the more interested the 11 became, the more kino the 10 gave me."

  4. 4
    East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning wordnet
  5. 5
    a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

18th century. Perhaps borrowed from Mandingo cano, or from a language of the East Indies.

Etymology 2

From Russian кино́ (kinó, “movie; cinema”), via Kino-Eye and Dziga Vertov's identification of his film Man with a Movie Camera as "ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY".

Etymology 3

From Russian кино́ (kinó, “movie; cinema”), via Kino-Eye and Dziga Vertov's identification of his film Man with a Movie Camera as "ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY".

Etymology 4

Coined by Ross Jeffries, from kinesthesia.

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