movie theatre

Questions about movie theatre

What does movie theatre mean?

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

What is another word for movie theatre?

Close synonyms include cinema, movie theater, 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 theatre a common word?

movie theatre 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.