cinema
cinema
/ˈsɪnəmə/, /ˈsɪnəmɑː/
(especially British English) (North American English usually movie theater, theater, movie house)
1 countable a building in which films are shown the local cinema
in a cinema
The film has just opened in cinemas across the UK.
We were sitting in the cinema, waiting for the film to begin.
at a cinema a screening at a cinema in Leicester Square in London
The cinema was packed every night for ‘Shrek’.
The cinema was packed, and we ended up sitting in the second row.
a new multiplex cinema on the edge of town
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
verb + cinema
be on at
cinema + noun
2 the cinema singular (British English) (North American English the movies) when you go to the cinema or to the movies, you go to a cinema to see a film I used to go to the cinema every week.
How often do you go to the cinema?
at the cinema I haven't seen a film at the cinema for nearly 2 years.
Is there anything good on at the cinema at the moment?
in the cinema I hated it when I saw it in the cinema.
uncountable, singular (especially British English) (North American English usually the movies) films as an art or an industry one of the great successes of British cinema
the most influential film in the history of cinema
He was honoured for his outstanding contribution to cinema.
contemporary/world cinema
mainstream/independent/arthouse/avant-garde cinema
She started making films in the last years of silent cinema.
Collocations
adjective
Word Origin
early 20th cent.: from French cinéma, abbreviation of cinématographe, from Greek kinēma, kinēmat- ‘movement’, from kinein ‘to move’.