motion picture

Questions about motion picture

What does motion picture mean?

motion picture means "a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement".

What is another word for motion picture?

Close synonyms include movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show. 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 motion picture a common word?

motion picture is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.