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Added 9 October 2026

cinema

/ˈsɪn.ə.mə/ noun

In Latin: cīnēmatēum Coined: 1890 Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about cinema at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A movie theatre, a movie house.
The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.
Films collectively.
Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.
The film and movie industry.
In the long history of Spanish cinema […] .

Origin

Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.

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