Definitions for cinema
ˈsɪn ə məcin·e·ma

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1. film, cinema, celluloid(noun)

   a medium that disseminates moving pictures

   "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events"

2. cinema, movie theater, movie theatre, movie house, picture palace(noun)

   a theater where films are shown

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1. cinema(n.)

   the art of creating motion pictures; as, this story would be good cinema; -- often used in the phrase the cinema.

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1. cinema(Noun)

   a film

   Etymology: From cinéma, shortening of cinématographe (term coined by the in the 1890s), from

2. cinema(Noun)

   a movie theatre, a movie house

   The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.

   Etymology: From cinéma, shortening of cinématographe (term coined by the in the 1890s), from

3. cinema(Noun)

   film or movies as a group

   Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.

   Etymology: From cinéma, shortening of cinématographe (term coined by the in the 1890s), from

4. cinema(Noun)

   the film and movie industry

   In the long history of Spanish cinema....

   Etymology: From cinéma, shortening of cinématographe (term coined by the in the 1890s), from

5. cinema(Noun)

   the art of making films and movies

   Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers....

   Etymology: From cinéma, shortening of cinématographe (term coined by the in the 1890s), from

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cinema' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4722

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cinema' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3923

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'cinema' in Nouns Frequency: #1713

Anagrams for cinema »

1. came in

2. anemic

3. iceman

How to pronounce cinema?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say cinema in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cinema in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of cinema in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of cinema in a Sentence

1. Abderrahmane Sissako:

   Being nominated is great for the continent and Mauritania ... (But) You cannot say that cinema is established because there is a festival, when you have countries that produce one film a year or one film every three years, which is the reality of African nations, cinema is not well established.

2. Henry Miller:

   Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

3. Linda Cardellini:

   Yeah, if it’s a great story definitely. Kids love it. I hear some 3 or 4 year old kids who can’t speak in complete sentences and they love to talk about Scooby-Doo. It’s fun. It’s really a great character. There’s not a lot of broad, young and smart, crazy, zany characters that you get to play like this. (Cinema Confidential; March 23, 2004)

4. Alfred Hitchcock:

   For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

5. Brenda Blethyn:

   I knew it was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good. Of course, I didn't know what it was about until I saw it in the cinema because of the way that he works — but I knew it was good. That it reached a wider audience surprised me.

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