moving picture

Questions about moving picture

What does moving picture mean?

moving 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 moving picture?

Close synonyms include movie, film, 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 moving picture a common word?

moving 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.