Cinema

Noun

 * 1)  a film
 * 2)  a movie theatre, a movie house
 * 3)  film or movies as a group
 * 4)  the film and movie industry
 * 5)  the art of making films and movies

Thesaurus
movie, movie theater, moving picture, moving-picture theater, newsreel, nickelodeon, nouvelle vague, nudie, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture house, picture palace, picture show, pornographic film, preview, short, show, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, talkie, talking picture, the cinema, the movies, the pictures, the screen, the silver screen, thriller, trailer, underground film, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, art film, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema verite, cinematograph, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film, drive-in, educational film, feature, film, flick, flicker, horror picture, horse opera, kinematograph, motion picture, motion-picture show,

Etymology
From cinéma, shortening of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s) <   κίνημα: (kinēma) "movement"

Synonyms

 * film, movie (chiefly US)
 * movie theatre, movie theater (chiefly US), movie house (chiefly US), pictures (regional, dated)
 * seventh art (the art of making films and movies)

Related terms

 * cinematic
 * cinematographic
 * cinematography
 * kinema

Translations

 * Arabic: (أفلام)
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: фільм
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ფილმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: (映畫)


 * Lao:
 * Macedonian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: film
 * Russian:,  ,  кинофильм, кинокартина,
 * Serbo-Croatian: филм, film
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: film
 * Thai: ฟิล์ม, ภาพยนตร์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: фільм, кіно
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese: phim,


 * Arabic:
 * Azeri:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Filipino:
 * Finnish: elokuvateatteri
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Greenlandic: biografi
 * Gujarati: ચલચિત્રપટ (chulchitraput)
 * Hebrew: בית־קולנוע
 * Hindi: सिनेमा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, kvikmyndahús
 * Ido:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: (映畵館)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: سینه‌ما
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: kino
 * Persian: سینما
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: cinematógrafo, cine
 * Swedish: biograf, bio
 * Tagalog: sinehan
 * Thai: โรงภาพยนตร์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: سنیما
 * Uyghur: (kinoxana / кинохана)
 * Vietnamese: rạp phim, rạp chiếu phim, rạp xi nê, rạp xi-nê
 * Volapük: bioskopöp


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew: קולנוע (qolnóa)
 * Japanese: 映画 (えいが, eiga), フィルム (firumu)
 * Polish: kino
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: film
 * Vietnamese: phim, điện ảnh


 * Bulgarian: кинематография
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 電影業, 电影业
 * Dutch: filmindustrie
 * Finnish: elokuvateollisuus
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: ચલચિત્ર ઉદ્યોગ (chalchitra udhyoga)


 * Hebrew: קולנוע (qolnoa)
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 映画産業 (えいがさんぎょう, eigasangyō)
 * Polish: kinematografia, kino
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cinematografie
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: film, filmbransch
 * Vietnamese: ngành phim, ngành điện ảnh


 * Bulgarian: кинематография
 * Chinese: 電影製作術, 电影制作术 (diàn yǐng jì zuò shù)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קולנוע (qolnóa)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 撮影 (さつえい, satsuei)
 * Korean:


 * Macedonian: кинематографија
 * Polish: kinematografia ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cinematografie
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: film, filmkonst
 * Turkish: sinematografi
 * Vietnamese: nghệ thuật phim, nghệ thuật điện ảnh

Anagrams

 * anemic
 * came in
 * iceman

Etymology
From cinéma: <  κίνημα:

Noun

 * 1) (art and industry) cinema
 * Il cinema è una lingua universale.  &mdash;
 * Cinema is a universal language.
 * 1) (movie theatre) cinema, movie theater, film theatre

Synonyms

 * (2) cinematografo, sala cinematografica

Related terms

 * cine-
 * cinegiornale
 * cinema d'animazione
 * cinema d'essai
 * cinema muto
 * cinema sonoro
 * cinemateatro
 * cinematico
 * cinematografia
 * cineparcheggio

Anagrams

 * macine
 * nemica

Etymology
From cinéma: <  κίνημα:

Noun
cinema


 * 1) cinema, film theatre

Related terms

 * cinemática
 * cinematografia
 * cinematográfico
 * cinematógrafo