Movie

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Movie \Mov"ie\, n.
     1. A motion picture.
  
     Syn: film, picture, moving picture, motion picture, picture
          show, flick.
          [PJC]


  
     2. A motion picture show; the event of showing a motion
        picture. In the pl., the event of showing a motion picture
        at a movie theater; as, to go to the movies; to spend an
        evening at the movies.
        [PJC]
  
     3. pl. The motion picture industry or medium, generally.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  movie
       n : a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of
           images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they
           went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot
           on location" [syn: {film}, {picture}, {moving picture}, {moving-picture
           show}, {motion picture}, {motion-picture show}, {picture
           show}, {pic}, {flick}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "movie":
     3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, actor-proof,
     all-star, animated cartoon, ballet, balletic, black-and-white film,
     cartoon, chiller, cine, cinema, cinematic, cinematographic,
     cinematography, color film, creepie, documentary, documentary film,
     dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, educational film, feature, film,
     filmic, flick, flicker, flicks, ham, hammy, histrionic,
     horror picture, horse opera, legitimate, melodramatic, milked,
     monodramatic, motion picture, motion-picture show, movies,
     moving picture, newsreel, nudie, operatic, overacted, overplayed,
     photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film,
     preview, scenic, short, show, silent, silent film, silver screen,
     skin flick, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, spectacular,
     stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, talkie,
     talking picture, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thriller,
     thrown away, trailer, underacted, underground film, underplayed,
     vaudevillian