cinema

1. 1.

   a medium that disseminates moving pictures

   “theater pieces transferred to celluloid”

   “this story would be good cinema”

   “film coverage of sporting events”

   Synonymsfilmcelluloid

   Broadermedium

   Narrowersilver screen

   art · commercial enterprise

2. 2.

   a theater where films are shown

   Synonymsmovie theatermovie theatremovie housepicture palace

   Broadertheater

   Narrowerbioscopefleapitmultiplex

Other forms of cinema

plural

cinemas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cinema

What does cinema mean?

cinema means "a medium that disseminates moving pictures". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cinema?

cinema has 3 syllables: cin-e-ma. The stress falls on "cin". In IPA it is /ˈsɪnəmə/.

What is another word for cinema?

Close synonyms include film, celluloid, movie theater, movie theatre, movie house. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cinema a common word?

cinema is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.