Meaning of movie in English

movie

noun

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A1 [ C ] mainly US

(UK usually film)

a film shown in a cinema or on television and often telling a story:

My favourite movie is "Casablanca".

the movies [ plural ] mainly US

(UK the cinema)

a cinema or group of cinemas:

What's on/showing at the movies this week?

Do you want to go to the movies tonight?

(UK cinema)

the business of making films:

She has worked in the movies all her life.

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The movie won Oscars for best costumes and best screenplay in this year's awards.
The new Spielberg movie comes out in August.
I thought we might get something to eat and then go to see a movie.
I don't much like cowboy movies.
This movie is a masterpiece of cinematography.

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(Definition of movie from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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movie

noun [ C ]

/ˈmu·vi/

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a series of moving pictures, often telling a story, usually shown in a theater or on television; film

A movie theater is a building in which movies are shown.

(Definition of movie from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of movie

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Over the last few decades, movies have become one of the most popular subjects of study in the research of economics of culture.

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To begin with, what we call 'flamenco' in the movie (and in real life as well) is itself a recent construct.

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The introduction of advertisements in the movie depends on the organisation of the movie scenario.

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But that was in the 1880s when there were no mass media such as the radio, movies, and television.

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After watching the movie you will know their meaning, how they are used, in what circumstance you can use it naturally.

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In addition, partial movie sound tracks are currently used throughout the mainland to teach listening comprehension.

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There are then exercises in the course of the movie and discussions afterwards.

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Panning over the scene, the camera glides towards a place where the movie's acousmatic phantom will be caught within the safest vessel of all.

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The holomovie can be imagined as a movie made up not of still pictures but of holographic pictures.

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In the movie, a viewer perceives a magnified ecosystem and its inhabitants (a variety of insects in all stages of their lives).

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From snapshot to movie : phi analysis of protein folding transition states taken one step further.

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People want to consume music, books, movies, and even potato chips that reflect their own identities.

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In the movie, three years later, he is approaching his re-election campaign.

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I suspect that most of my readers, like myself, have never communicated with ghosts; we know them through movies and fiction.

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This boy had seen many movies, heard many stories, and had observed patterns of successful (and unsuccessful) real-world behavior.

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