cinema

cinema (ˈsɪnɪmə)

—n
1.	chiefly (Brit)
	a. a place designed for the exhibition of films
	b. (as modifier): a cinema seat
2.	the cinema
	a. the art or business of making films
	b. films collectively

[C19 (earlier spelling kinema): shortened from cinematograph]

cinematic

—*adj*

cine'matically

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

cinema

1899, "a movie hall," from Fr. cinéma, shortened from cinématographe, coined 1890s by Lumiere brothers, who invented it, from Gk. kinema "movement," from kinein "to move" (see cite). Meaning "movies collectively, especially as an art form" first recorded 1918.

Cinéma vérité is 1963, from Fr.; Cinerama, proprietary name, is from 1951.

Example sentences

Research has identified links between smoking in films and the consumption of

cigarettes by those leaving a cinema.

But if you know where to look, there are ways to get your fix of world cinema.

All the writing of the past century, and the cinema, and television have made

us quicker.

To me, at age four or five, it seemed as large and dark and legit as any

stand-alone cinema.

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Matching Quote

"An honest appraisal of the respective pleasures derived from theater and cinema, at least as to what is less intellectual and more direct about them, forces us to admit that the delight we experience at the end of a play has a more uplifting, a nobler, one might perhaps say a more moral, effect than the satisfaction which follows a good film. We seem to come away with a better conscience. In a certain sense it is as if for the man in the audience all theater is "Corneillian." From this point of view one could say that in the best films something is missing. It is as if a certain inevitable lowering of the voltage, some mysterious aesthetic short circuit, deprived us in the cinema of a certain tension which is a definite part of theater. No matter how slight this difference it undoubtedly exists, even between the worst charity production in the theater and the most brilliant of Olivier's film adaptations."

-André Bazin