nickelodeon
- noun
- /ˌnɪkəˈloʊdiən/
- Archaic
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niquelófono
- It started as a storefront nickelodeon, and he turned it into a movie palace.
- nickelodeon owners
Examples
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And so today we chance to pass a nickelodeon, decide to while away an hour in innocent pleasure, and what do we see, Mr. Cobb?
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Showing small, colored transparencies that were accompanied by songs about simple tales sung in three verses and refrains was very popular in vaudeville theaters and became even more popular with the advent of the nickelodeon.
Academic text (1991) -
I saw that in a nickelodeon once and I always wanted to do it.
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Haven't you ever been to a nickelodeon?
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Six years ago, there were 4,000 nickelodeons in this country, now there are three times that many.
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Nyalakan TV-mu di saluran Nickelodeon.
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At that time, few observers realized that one particular segment of moviegoers, the recently arrived immigrants from Europe, regarded the nickelodeon as their social club as well as a school of adult education.
Academic text (1991) -
In 1908, fifteen-year-old Sara Carlin began to work full-time as a cashier at a local Chicago nickelodeon while her brother Leo went to high school and college.
Academic text (2002) -
By the time Nancy Drew stepped onto the scene in April 1930, however, the nickelodeons and silent films extolled in these series had largely disappeared (as had the series themselves), being replaced by talking pictures and a sophisticated production and marketing apparatus based in Hollywood, California.
Academic text (2016) -
In the early 1900s, a visit to a nickelodeon was a popular form of entertainment for families.
Synonyms
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1.0
A building where people go to watch movies on a big screen
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1.0
A building where people go to watch films on a screen
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1.6
A building where people go to watch movies
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6.0
A building where people go to watch movies
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9.9
A building where people go to watch films
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8.9
An old-fashioned cinema where films are shown to the public
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nickelodeon comes from nickel ('five cents') and odeon ('place for singing' or theater), which is related to the English word ode. In the early 1900s small movie theaters charged a nickel for admission, so the word came to mean a cheap five-cent movie theater.