movie

A1 Topic:Entertainment & Leisure

US /ˈmuːvi/ See IPA manual

noun Freq #755

Meanings

1

noun
A story told through moving pictures and sound, shown on a screen.

They went to see a movie every Saturday night.
2

noun
A cinema; a place where films are shown.

Let's go to the movies tonight.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a story told through moving... film picturemotion picture

Word family

Forms movies

Derived forms b-moviee-moviemegamoviemidmovieminimoviemovie-goermoviedommoviegoermoviegoingmovieholicmoviehousemovieize

Common collocations

Etymology

From moving (picture) + -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908), originally in American English.

*m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European

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Topics

Entertainment & Leisure

# movie

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** ˈmuːvi
**Frequency rank:** 755

## Meanings
1. A story told through moving pictures and sound, shown on a screen.
2. A cinema; a place where films are shown.

## Examples
- They went to see a movie every Saturday night.
- Let's go to the movies tonight.

## Derived Forms
- b-movie
- e-movie
- megamovie
- midmovie
- minimovie
- movie-goer
- moviedom
- moviegoer
- moviegoing
- movieholic
- moviehouse
- movieize

## Related Forms
- video

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *m(y)ewh₁-

## Etymology
From moving (picture) + -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908), originally in American English.

## AI Etymology
Movie comes from moving (picture) + -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908), originally in American English. In present-day English its meanings include a story told through moving pictures and sound, shown on a screen and a cinema; a place where films are shown. Related and derived forms include video, b-movie, e-movie, and megamovie.

## Topics
- Entertainment & Leisure

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