movie

Other forms of movie

plural

movies·

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 movie

What does movie mean?

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

How many syllables are in movie?

movie has 2 syllables: mo-vie. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmuvi/.

What is another word for movie?

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

movie is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.