cinema

noun

1. 1

   A movie theatre, a movie house.

   The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.

2. 2

   Films collectively.

   Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.

3. 3

   The film and movie industry.

   In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].

   Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

4. 4

   The art of making films and movies; cinematography.

   Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].

   The French and Italian cinemas can seem to persist autonomously—in the sense of being spaces of separate development and marked difference from Hollywood and other national cinemas.

5. 5

   A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.

6. 6

   A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema. Any media or event that is exemplary.

   That game was absolute cinema.

Forms

plural

cinemas