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CinemaScope

CinemaScope

7.5
Having very wide pictures like those in widescreen movies
  • adjective
  • /ˈsɪnəməˌskoʊp/
  • Archaic
translation icon : de CinemaScope
  • The director chose a CinemaScope format for the epic film.

Examples

  • The film's CinemaScope visuals made the mountain scenery look even more impressive.

  • I love watching CinemaScope movies on a big screen.

  • She admired the CinemaScope proportions of the new television in the store window.

  • The documentary was shot in a CinemaScope format to capture the vastness of the savannah.

  • The film's CinemaScope visuals made the mountain scenery look even more impressive.

  • The documentary was shot in a CinemaScope format to capture the vastness of the savannah.

  • I love watching CinemaScope movies on a big screen.

Synonyms

panoramic
vsCinemaScope
15 4.9

A very wide view of land or a city from high up

is a film format aiming for an especially wide, cinematic visual effect
wide-screen
vsCinemaScope
4 3.6

A screen or picture that is much wider than it is tall, like modern TVs

refers to a particular film format giving an especially wide, cinematic appearance

How Wide

CinemaScope
  • Archaic
7.5
widescreen
8 3.4
standard
675 2.7

Surface Forms

CinemaScope positive

Morphology

CinemaScope = cinema + scope (semi-transparent) = cinema + scope

The form is clearly built from 'cinema' and 'scope', but the sense is a specialized trademarked film-format name rather than a fully predictable compound meaning.

Etymology

CinemaScope as an adjective keeps the same parts, cinema 'movie' and scope 'view', and so it suggests the wide, dramatic look of CinemaScope films. That's why calling something CinemaScope means it looks very wide and movie-like.