Home > Synonyms > Synonyms for cinema

Synonyms for cinema

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sin-uh-muh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪn ə mə

Top 10 synonyms for cinema
Other synonyms for the word cinema

Définition of cinema

Origin :
  • 1899, "a movie hall," from French cinéma, shortened from cinématographe "motion picture projector and camera," coined 1890s by Lumiere brothers, who invented it, from Latinized form of Greek kinemat-, comb. form of kinema "movement," from kinein "to move" (see cite) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy). Meaning "movies collectively, especially as an art form" recorded by 1914. Cinéma vérité is 1963, from French.
  • noun movie industry; movie arena
Example sentences :
  • I suspected a false idea of this rude life had been given by the cinema dramas.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • If I had my way I'd be as pretty as a cinema star and twice as soulful.
  • Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
  • No theaters, cinema shows but three nights a week, and this an off night.
  • Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
  • As it is, she had the greatest difficulty in keeping them, because there's no cinema near.
  • Extract from : « A Boswell of Baghdad » by E. V. Lucas
  • I know you affect to scorn the cinema, and this was it, tremolo and all.
  • Extract from : « Coming Home » by Edith Wharton
  • Surely there are here the elements of a play, not to mention a cinema play.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
  • What goes to Oklahoma is not the peasant play, but the cinema.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
  • And the objection to the cinema is not so much that it goes to Oklahoma as that it does not come from Oklahoma.
  • Extract from : « What I Saw in America » by G. K. Chesterton
  • To-day, some of our best use them as an equivalent of the cinema fade-out.
  • Extract from : « If Winter Don't » by Barry Pain
  • “Ah, there you have the Cinema,” replied Sir William enthusiastically.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 19, 1920 » by Various
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019