movie
Meanings
Plural: movies
Noun
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- "they went to a movie every Saturday night"
- A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film.
- A cinema; a movie theatre.
- Any event, especially one that is unpleasant or tiresome.
- An extremely fun and exciting experience.
Origin / Etymology
From moving (picture) + -ie. Attested since at least 1912 (if not 1908), originally in American English.
Synonyms
film, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, moving picture, moving-picture show, photoplay, pic, picture, picture show
Scrabble Score: 10
movie is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordmovie is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
movie is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary