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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | movie industry; movie arena |
| Synonyms: | big screen, bijou, cine, drive-in, film, flicks, motion pictures, movie house, movie theater, moving pictures, nabes, photoplay, picture show, pictures, playhouse, show, silver screen |
| Main Entry: | motion picture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | film |
| Synonyms: | cine, cinema, cinematics, cinematograph, feature film, film, flick, flick, flicker, movie, moving picture, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, silver screen, talkie, talkie, talking picture, videotape |
| Main Entry: | movie |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | presentation of action on continuous film |
| Synonyms: | celluloid, cine, cinema, cinematics, cinematograph, feature, film, flick, motion picture, moving picture, photoplay, picture, screenplay, show, silent*, silver screen, talkie, talking picture, videotape |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | picture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment film |
| Synonyms: | cartoon, cinema, flick, motion picture, movie, moving picture, photoplay, picture show, show |
| Main Entry: | show |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertainment event |
| Synonyms: | act, appearance, burlesque, carnival, cinema, comedy, drama, entertainment, film, flick, motion picture, movie, pageant, picture, play, presentation, production, showing, spectacle |
| Notes: | in horse racing results, there is win, place, show, and also-ran |
| Main Entry: | theater/theatre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stage, building for performance |
| Synonyms: | amphitheater, arena, assembly hall, auditorium, barn, boards, cinema, coliseum, concert hall, deck, drama, drive-in, footlights, hall, hippodrome, house, locale, movie, movie house, oak, odeum, opera house, playhouse, room, scene, show hall, site |
| Main Entry: | movie theater |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where movies are shown |
| Synonyms: | cinema, circuit theater, dream palace, drive-in movie, drive-in theater, film theater, fleapit, grind house, motion-picture theater, movie house, movie palace, multiplex, picture house, picture palace, picture show, picture theater, revival house |
| Main Entry: | moving picture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | film |
| Synonyms: | cinema, flick, motion picture, movie, picture, picture show, talkie |
| Main Entry: | silver screen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | motion picture industry |
| Synonyms: | Hollywood, big screen, cinema, filmdom, films, motion pictures, motion-picture screen, moviedom |
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