Cinema Film I Sitting Noun ˈsɪnəmə ˈsɪnəmɑː Local

• the local cinema
• the film has just opened in cinemas across the uk.
• we were sitting in the cinema, waiting for the film to begin.
• a screening at a cinema in leicester square in london

cinema

1. a building in which films are shown
• SEE ALSO home cinema
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/home-cinema
• the local cinema
• The film has just opened in cinemas across the UK.
• We were sitting in the cinema, waiting for the film to begin.
• a screening at a cinema in Leicester Square in London

Extra Examples

• 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
2. 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?
• I haven't seen a film at the cinema for nearly 2 years.
• Is there anything good on at the cinema at the moment?
• I hated it when I saw it in the cinema.
3. 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.

Word Origin

• early 20th cent.: from French cinéma, abbreviation of cinématographe, from Greek kinēma, kinēmat- ‘movement’, from kinein ‘to move’.