cinema means A movie theatre, a movie house. It carries an Arena rating of 1520, earned across 4 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, cinema ranks #2,122 of 17,052 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #5,613 of 17,052 for Most Malleable Words, #7,038 of 17,052 for Most Beautiful Words, #7,847 of 17,052 for Most Vivid Words.
cinema is pronounced /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/.
Why “cinema” is a great word
A theater for the exhibition of motion pictures, or the collective art and industry of filmmaking. From French cinéma, a shortening of cinématographe, itself from Greek kinēma ("movement") and -graphos ("writing, recording"). Unlike "theater," which denotes the live stage and the palpable breath of actors, or "film," which names the specific work or its material medium, cinema is the vessel and the voyage: the institution, the darkened hall, the shared dream. It is the hush before the projector flickers to life, the collective intake of breath in the velvet dark, and the ghostly afterimage burning on the retina as the house lights rise—a secular temple for our most profound and communal illusions, where stories are summoned, not performed.
noun
- A movie theatre, a movie house.e.g.“The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.”
- Films collectively.e.g.“Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.”
- The film and movie industry.e.g.“In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].”
- The art of making films and movies; cinematography.e.g.“Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].”
- A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
- A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.; Any media or event that is exemplary.e.g.“That game was absolute cinema.”
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