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cinema

[ sin-uh-muh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

movies collectively, as an art:
During the Great Depression, cinema provided psychological comfort, an escape from the harsh realities of daily life.
Also Older Spelling, kin·e·ma []. Chiefly British. movie theater:
Do you know if there is a cinema near the British Museum?

cinema

/ ˈsɪnɪmə; ˌsɪnɪˈmætɪk /

1. a place designed for the exhibition of films
2. ( as modifier )
  a cinema seat
the cinema
1. the art or business of making films
2. films collectively

Origin of cinema¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; short for cinematograph

Origin of cinema¹

C19 (earlier spelling kinema ): shortened from cinematograph

The Second Republic was also considered the another golden age for Korean Cinema.

In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.

Forty-two years after its debut, The Godfather casts a long shadow over American cinema.

President Park understood the power of cinema as propaganda.

Cinema Services gave him the heads-up that Sony was going forward with the December 25 release.

As it is, she had the greatest difficulty in keeping them, because there's no cinema near.

It is true that I had never been to the cinema before I married him, and I am not sure that it was not his first time, too.

I cannot pretend to have learned much about the cinema on such a brief visit, but I acquired a few facts.

In the years immediately preceding the war the cinema demands an evergrowing if not altogether appreciative attention.

The post-office is an annexe of the grocer's where the sardines come from on Jane's cinema evening.

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