English Online Dictionary. What means movie? What does movie mean?
English
Etymology
From moving (picture) + -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908), originally in American English.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmuːvi/
- Rhymes: -uːvi
Noun
movie (plural movies)
- (chiefly Canada, US, Australia) A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film.
- Synonyms: flick, motion picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, photoplay, picture show, picture
- (usually in the plural, chiefly Canada, US, Australia) A cinema; a movie theatre.
- (informal, figuratively) Any event, especially one that is unpleasant or tiresome.
- (slang, figuratively) An extremely fun and exciting experience.
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Derived terms
Descendants
- → Bengali: মুভী (mubhi), মুভি (mubhi)
- → Hindi: मूवी (mūvī)
- → Japanese: ムービー (mūbī)
- → Korean: 무비 (mubi)
- → Urdu: مُووِی (mūvī)
- → Yiddish: מוּווי (muvi)
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References
Further reading
- “movie n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Anagrams
- Vimeo