movie
A screenshot of a black-and-white movie
Meaning
Noun
- A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.
- A cinema.
Related
Similar words
- film, motion picture, motion-picture show; photoplay; picture, picture show; flick; moving picture, moving-picture show
Narrower meaning words
Origin
- From moving picture -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908), originally American English.
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