Cinema Bre Noun ˈsɪnəmə ˈsɪnəmɑː Local I Week

• the local cinema
• i used to go to the cinema every week.
• one of the great successes of british cinema
• how often do you go to the cinema?

cinema

1. a building in which films/movies are shown
• the local cinema
2. when you go to the cinema or to the movies, you go to a cinema/movie theater to see a film/movie
• I used to go to the cinema every week.
3. films/movies as an art or an industry
• one of the great successes of British cinema

Extra Examples

• How often do you go to the cinema?
• She started making films in the last years of silent cinema.
• The cinema was packed every night for ‘Shrek’.
• The cinema was packed, and we ended up sitting in the second row.
• What’s on at the cinema tonight?
• a new multiplex cinema on the edge of town

Word Origin

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