CINEMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cinema mean? 

• CINEMA (noun)
  The noun CINEMA has 2 senses:

1. a medium that disseminates moving pictures

2. a theater where films are shown

  Familiarity information: CINEMA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CINEMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medium that disseminates moving pictures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

celluloid; cinema; film

Context example:

film coverage of sporting events

Hypernyms ("cinema" is a kind of...):

medium (a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Domain member category:

cut-in; insert ((film) a still picture that is introduced and that interrupts the action of a film)

MacGuffin; McGuffin ((film) a plot element that catches the viewers' attention or drives the plot)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cinema"):

silver screen (the film industry)

Derivation:

cinematic (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the cinema)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A theater where films are shown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cinema; movie house; movie theater; movie theatre; picture palace

Hypernyms ("cinema" is a kind of...):

house; theater; theatre (a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cinema"):

bioscope (a South African movie theater)

fleapit (an old shabby movie theater)

multiplex (a movie theater than has several different auditoriums in the same building)