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say it: MOOV-muhnt
movement is a noun meaning "a change of position that does not entail a change of location". It is pronounced /ˈmuvmənt/ — MOOV-muhnt. It carries 11 recorded senses.
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
“he was a charter member of the movement”
“politicians have to respect a mass movement”
“he led the national liberation front”
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
“the second movement is slow and melodic”
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
“he supported populist campaigns”
“they worked in the cause of world peace”
“the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant”
“the movement to end slavery”
“contributed to the war effort”
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
“the cinema relies on apparent motion”
“the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement”
a euphemism for defecation
“he had a bowel movement”
euphemism
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
“not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book”
“a broad movement of the electorate to the right”
the act of changing the location of something
“the movement of cargo onto the vessel”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for movement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.