CINEMA VERITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cinema verite mean? 

• CINEMA VERITE (noun)
  The noun CINEMA VERITE has 1 sense:

1. a movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director

  Familiarity information: CINEMA VERITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CINEMA VERITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

film; flick; motion-picture show; motion picture; movie; moving-picture show; moving picture; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)