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Picture show

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of movie. dated

    "His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars. She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it."

  2. 2
    a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement wordnet

Etymology

Short for motion-picture show. Although the collocation per se (noun adjunct + noun) predates motion pictures, previously having referred occasionally to the display of collections of illustrations, its status as a compound noun comes from its motion-picture sense.

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