cinema

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Related topics: Film

cin·e·ma /ˈsɪnəmə/ S3 noun

1 [countableC] especially British EnglishBrEAMF a building in which films are shown 电影院 SYN American English movie theater

It’s on at the local cinema.

此片正在当地影院上映。

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2 the cinema British EnglishBrE if you go to the cinema, you go to a cinema to see a film （去）电影院看电影

We decided to go to the cinema.

我们决定去电影院看电影。

Examples from the Corpus

go to the cinema• We could go to the cinema maybe.• Everyone enjoys going to the cinema and it would be nice if it could also be taken seriously.• The last time I went to the cinema was when I saw 'Stigmata'.• My father never went to the cinema because the technicolour was bad for his epilepsy.• And so they went to the cinema.• He was to be allowed to go to the cinema with her.• One night three of us decided to go to the cinema.• Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again.

3 [singular, uncountableU]AMF the skill or industry of making films 电影制作；电影业 → cinematic

a leading figure in Italian cinema

意大利电影界的领军人物

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verbs

go to the cinema

Why don’t we go to the cinema tonight?

be on/be showing at the cinema

Do you know what’s on at the cinema?

adjectives

a multiplex cinema (=with several different screens for showing films)

You can see the movie now at your local multiplex cinema.

a 6-screen/12-screen etc cinema

The new leisure complex includes a 12-screen cinema.

cinema + NOUN

a cinema audience (=the people who watch a film)

His new movie is sure to bring in big cinema audiences.

a cinema screen (=the large white surface on which films are shown)

The film was much better on the cinema screen than on TV.

cinema advertising

a cinema advertising campaign for Levi jeans

a cinema chain (=a group of cinemas owned by the same company)

He works for a well-known cinema chain.

cinema release (=the showing of a new film at the cinema)

His film was banned from cinema release for some years.

Examples from the Corpus

cinema• The main purpose of Levin's article, however, is to reclaim Debord for the aesthetic discourse of avant-garde cinema.• D"rrie is an important director in German cinema.• Which 1956 film caused riots in cinemas all over the world? 02.• They liked violent, even pornographic films, and there was one at the local cinema.• Or rediscover the drama of the big screen at one of Brighton's luxury cinemas.• the MGM cinema in Leicester Square• All that Sunday he had brooded on the episode in the cinema.• Who goes to orchestral concerts, who goes to opera, to ballet, to the cinema?• Television and videos are replacing trips to the cinema.• To beguile some of the time in Malvern, they went to the cinema.• He appears to be offering a total cinema in which technique, story, social setting, and spiritual values came together.

Origin cinema

(1900-2000) cinematograph “movie camera, movie show” ((19-20 centuries)), from French cinématographe, from Greek kinema “movement” + French -graphe “recording instrument”

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