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Cinema   /sˈɪnəmə/   Listen
Cinema

noun
1.
A medium that disseminates moving pictures.  Synonyms: celluloid, film.  "This story would be good cinema" , "Film coverage of sporting events"
2.
A theater where films are shown.  Synonyms: movie house, movie theater, movie theatre, picture palace.



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"Cinema" Quotes from Famous Books



... cars, platform, parcel and goods porters, telegraphists and ticket collectors and inspectors, and labourers and wagon sheet repairers. They work in quarries, are coal workers, clean ships, are park-keepers and cinema operators. They are commercial travellers in large numbers. They are in banks to a great extent and are now ...
— Women and War Work • Helen Fraser

... Western City, one bright afternoon in the late fall of 1921. We talked about the picture which Dr. Henner had recommended to me, and which we were now going to see. It was called "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari," and was a "futurist" production, a strange, weird freak of the cinema art, supposed to be the nightmare of a madman. "Being an American," said Dr. Henner, "you will find yourself asking, 'What good does such a picture do?' You will have the idea that every work of art must serve some moral purpose." After a pause, ...
— They Call Me Carpenter • Upton Sinclair



Words linked to "Cinema" :   theater, fleapit, bioscope, artistic production, multiplex, house, insert, McGuffin, movie theatre, MacGuffin, commercial enterprise, cinema verite, theatre, artistic creation, business, cut-in, business enterprise, art, medium, silver screen, cinematic



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