plural movies
1
: a recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch (as in a theater or on the screen of a television or mobile device) : motion picture sense 2a
watched a movie after dinner
a movie about the Civil War
an action movie
especially
: a feature-length film shown in a movie theater
2
the movies
: a showing of a motion picture especially in a theater
went to the movies last Friday
also
: a theater that shows movies
What's playing at the movies?
3
the movies
: the business of making movies : the medium or industry of film
Examples of movie in a Sentence
He wants to work in the movies.
a career in the movies
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Film Editor, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2026
Somebody was asking me the other day, why this movie now?
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
And as new movie Send Help continues to defy box office expectations, its anti-elite plot deserves some of the credit.
—Alexa Beck, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
However, these flourishes don’t last, and the movie ends up petering out without all that much to say.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 15 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for movie
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“Movie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/movie. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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movie
noun
mov·ie
ˈmü-vē 
2
a
: a story represented in motion pictures
b
pl : a showing of a movie
went to the movies yesterday
3
plural
: the business of making movies : the motion-picture industry
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