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cinema

noun
/ˈsɪn.ə.mə/US/ˈsɪn.ɪ.mə/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂-der. Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μα (-ma) Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos)bor. Latin -graphuslbor. French -graphe French cinématographeclip. French cinémabor. English cinema Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.

  1. derived from κίνημα — “movement”
  2. borrowed from cinéma

Definitions

  1. A movie theatre, a movie house.

    • The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.

  2. Films collectively.

    • Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.

  3. The film and movie industry.

    • In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The art of making films and movies

      The art of making films and movies; cinematography.

      • Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].
      • The French and Italian cinemas can seem to persist autonomously—in the sense of being spaces of separate development and marked difference from Hollywood and other national cinemas.

    2. A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.

The neighborhood

Derived

absolute cinema, anticinema, cinemaddict, cinema-goer, cinemagoer, cinemagoing, cinema hall, cinemaholic, cinemaic, cinemalike, cinemansion, cinemaphile, cinemaphobe, cinemaphotography, cinematherapy, cinematology, cinema verite, cinemology, cinemuck, cineplex, Cinerama, direct cinema, ecocinema, home cinema, hyperlink cinema, machinima, metacinema, microcinema, neurocinema, noncinema, precinema, prisoner's cinema, silent cinema, skinema, supercinema

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at cinema. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at cinema. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at cinema

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA