What does movie mean?

Definitions for movie
ˈmu vimovie

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flicknoun

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

    "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"

GCIDE

  1. Movienoun

    A motion picture.

  2. Movienoun

    A motion picture show; the event of showing a motion picture. In the pl., the event of showing a motion picture at a movie theater; as, to go to the movies; to spend an evening at the movies.

  3. Movienoun

    pl. The motion picture industry or medium, generally.

Wiktionary

  1. movienoun

    A motion picture.

  2. movienoun

    A cinema.

    Let's go to the movies.

  3. Etymology: From moving picture.

ChatGPT

  1. movie

    A movie is a form of visual and audio entertainment that tells a fictional or non-fictional story through a sequence of moving images. It typically involves actors portraying characters and is typically shown in theaters or viewed on televisions or other screens. Movies can encompass various genres, including but not limited to, drama, comedy, action, horror, science fiction, romance, and documentary.

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'movie' in Nouns Frequency: #1443

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of movie in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of movie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of movie in a Sentence

  1. Olivia Newton-John:

    I'm not a fortune teller, i don't think anyone could have imagined a movie would go on almost 40 years and would still be popular and people would still be talking to me about it all the time and loving it. It's just one of those movies. I'm very lucky to have been a part of it. It's given so many people pleasure.

  2. George Loewenstein:

    The incentive for getting vaccinated should be that you can go into your workplace, that you can go into movie theaters and restaurants, and, perhaps, that you don't have to wear a mask all the time.

  3. Brittany Muddamalle:

    She was totally invested in it, glued to the movie the whole time.

  4. Eric Garcetti:

    I hope this movie can be a gut check and a visceral reminder to people of the danger from quakes, but then that people will also do a head check about how they can really be prepared…to react by looking at some good research and using their heads about the dangers we really face.

  5. Paul Dergarabedian:

    In our fan survey, over 40 percentof the audience went to see the movie because of the director, thats incredible. You almost never see that. Sony did a great job of putting that cast and certainly Tarantino at the front of the marketing. That collective star power just paid huge dividends.

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