picture show
10
2.5
- noun
- /ˈpɪk.tʃər ʃoʊ/
- Archaic
:
película
- Maybe we ought to take her into town to a picture show sometime.
- go to the picture show
- see a picture show
- the last picture show
Examples
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Hey, you know what I love about comin' to the picture show during the day? - What? - Makes me feel like I'm playin' hooky from school.
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Here are some things you might not know about 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'
Blog text (2) -
You went to a picture show tonight, alone.
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The travelling picture show had come to town.
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I'd read where Dillinger started to run when he saw the cops outside the picture show.
Fiction book (1990) -
Take them to see the moving picture show at the People's Theater and don't you dare come back until the picture is over.
Fiction book (1990) -
I want to see it, but Papa said picture shows cost almost as much as a pair of stockings, and I needed stockings more.
Fiction book (2001) -
I think about the side door at the picture show here in Crystal Falls, the door that leads one way, straight to the balcony, the colored section.
Fiction book (1990) -
Do you want to go to the picture show with me Saturday night?
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The travelling picture show had come to town.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A story told with moving pictures on a screen
∞
1.0
A story shown as moving images in a cinema or on screen
691
7.7
A movie shown on a screen in a theatre or at home
83
3.0
A story that uses moving images and sound, like a movie
81
4.1
A casual word for a movie you watch at a cinema
54
2.3
An event when people go to see something like a film or artwork
21
2.8
A showing of a movie for an audience
16
8.1
A movie shown in a cinema or on screen
8
3.5
A movie shown on a screen that tells a story
3
2.1
A time when people can watch a film or play
1
7.2
A film with recorded voices and music
1
5.5
A show that tells a story with moving images and sound like a movie
1
9.9
An old word for a movie from the early days of film
A public show where moving pictures and sound tell a story, like a film at a cinema
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a motion picture/film' is directly compositionally predictable from 'picture' (a moving image or film) + 'show' (an event presented to an audience): together they denote a show consisting of pictures, i.e. a movie. This straightforward noun+noun compound follows common compositional patterns and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Picture show comes from the early days when people watched moving pictures presented as a show on a screen. So the phrase became a simple way to mean a 'movie' or 'film' shown for entertainment.