What does movie mean?

Definitions for movie
ˈmu vimovie

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word movie.

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. Keifer Sanders:

    I spoke to another guy that was actually in the movie theater that the shooting happened, what he said was they were sitting down ... it was quiet, there was no argument, nothing going on at all.

  2. Jon Krakauer:

    Anyone who goes to that movie and wants a fact-based account should read ‘Into Thin Air,'.

  3. Ryan Reynolds:

    Even right up before shortly before he passed away, I talked to him on the phone about a charity initiative he was trying to launch, this guy was really made of good stuff right until the end. Having him in the movie is certainly bittersweet, that's for sure.

  4. Chris Whipple:

    One of the problems is that nobody's in charge in the White House in the senior staff, (So-called) chaos management where you have senior advisers competing for the attention of the boss, that might work in some areas of the business world, but it cannot work in the White House, never has worked. We've seen this movie before. It's never a happy ending.

  5. Michele Pagano:

    I was watching a movie, and I just blurted out a laugh.

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