movie theater

Questions about movie theater

What does movie theater mean?

movie theater means "a theater where films are shown".

What is another word for movie theater?

Close synonyms include cinema, movie theatre, movie house, picture palace. 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 theater a common word?

movie theater 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.