'Movie' definitions:
Definition of 'movie'
(from WordNet)
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"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick]
Definition of 'Movie'
From: GCIDE
- Movie \Mov"ie\, n.
- 1. A motion picture.
- Syn: film, picture, moving picture, motion picture, picture show, flick. [PJC]
- 2. A motion picture show; the event of showing a motion picture. In the pl., the event of showing a motion picture at a movie theater; as, to go to the movies; to spend an evening at the movies. [PJC]
- 3. pl. The motion picture industry or medium, generally. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'movie'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 3-D,
- actor-proof,
- all-star,
- animated cartoon,
- ballet,
- balletic,
- black-and-white film,
- cartoon,
- chiller,
- cine,
- cinema,
- Cinemascope,
- cinematic,
- cinematographic,
- cinematography,
- Cinerama,
- color film,
- creepie,
- documentary,
- documentary film,
- dramatic,
- dramatical,
- dramaturgic,
- educational film,
- feature,
- film,
- filmic,
- flick,
- flicker,
- flicks,
- ham,
- hammy,
- histrionic,
- horror picture,
- horse opera,
- legitimate,
- melodramatic,
- milked,
- monodramatic,
- motion picture,
- motion-picture show,
- movies,
- moving picture,
- newsreel,
- nudie,
- operatic,
- overacted,
- overplayed,
- photodrama,
- photoplay,
- picture,
- picture show,
- pornographic film,
- preview,
- scenic,
- short,
- show,
- silent,
- silent film,
- silver screen,
- skin flick,
- sneak preview,
- spaghetti Western,
- spectacular,
- stagelike,
- stageworthy,
- stagy,
- starstruck,
- stellar,
- talkie,
- talking picture,
- Technicolor,
- theaterlike,
- theatrical,
- thespian,
- thriller,
- thrown away,
- trailer,
- underacted,
- underground film,
- underplayed,
- vaudevillian,
- Western