cinematograph
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- noun
- /ˌsɪnəˈmætəˌgræf/
- Archaic
:
cinematógrafo
- In December 1896, just four months after the first public screening of the Lumiere cinematograph in Mexico City, he wrote his first article about motion pictures.
Examples
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I am only looking for the cinematograph.
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Kids weren't admitted into the cinematograph.
Fiction book (2001) -
See the amazing cinematograph!
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In the early 20th century, families would gather at the cinematograph to watch the latest films.
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The cinematograph was a popular venue where audiences could enjoy silent films and newsreels.
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Before the rise of modern cinemas, people often enjoyed watching movies at a local cinematograph.
Synonyms
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1.0
A building where people go to see plays or movies
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A building where people go to watch movies on a big screen
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A building where people go to watch films on a screen
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A building where people go to watch movies
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A cinema with several screens that shows different films at the same time
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A building where people go to watch films
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A building where people go to watch movies
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An old-fashioned cinema where films are shown to the public
A cinema with several rooms showing different films
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Morphology
cinematograph = cinemato + graph
This is a historical, lexicalized venue sense that is not recoverable from the classical elements by an average learner.
Etymology
Cinematograph comes from parts that mean 'movement' and 'writing' — cinema (from Greek for 'move') and graph (from Greek for 'write'), the same graph you see in photograph. So a cinematograph was a place for showing 'moving pictures', which is why it became an early word for a cinema.