1
a
: motion picture
—usually used attributively
b
: a motion-picture theater
2
a
: movies
especially
: the film industry
b
: the art or technique of making motion pictures
Examples of cinema in a Sentence
a student of French cinema
We drove by the cinema to see what was playing.
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Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 28 July 2025
All the channels work with MBC Studios which produces premium content for cinema, television and on-demand platforms.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 July 2025
The then-England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley took Stanway out to the cinema on her first weekend away from home.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 July 2025
The cinema business, and Imax especially, builds capacity for peak times.
—Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
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“Cinema.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cinema. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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cinema
noun
cin·e·ma
ˈsin-ə-mə 
1
a
: movie sense 2a
a cinema director
b
: a theater for showing movies
went to the cinema
2
a
: the business of making movies
worked in cinema
b
: the art or technique of making movies
a student of French cinema
cinematic
adjective
ˌsin-ə-ˈmat-ik
cinematically
adverb
-i-k(ə-)lē
Etymology
derived from French cinématographe "motion picture," from Greek kinēma "movement" and graphe "picture," from kinein "to move" — related to kinetic
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