movie

noun

mov·ie ˈmü-vē

Synonyms of movie next

: a recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch on a screen or television : motion picture

watched a movie after dinner

a movie about the Civil War

an action movie

movies plural : a showing of a motion picture especially in a theater

went to the movies last Friday

also : a theater that shows movies

What's playing at the movies?

movies plural : the business of making movies : the motion-picture medium or industry

Examples of movie in a Sentence

He wants to work in the movies. a career in the movies

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The Palisades Charter High School, which has become recognizable to millions as a location where multiple movies and television series have been filmed inside its halls and exterior, is seeking a temporary campus after 40 percent of the property was scorched in the ongoing Palisades Fire. —

Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Jan. 2025 Cameron Diaz's movie comeback, Back in Action, won't have a premiere. —

Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 Part of what was fun about working on this project was really living in her personality for the length of a movie. —

Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025 The closest analogy to what Whannell is trying to do here isn’t a werewolf movie so much as David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986), which turned a ’50s B-movie into a gory, gooey interpretation of the havoc disease wreaks on those suffering from both sides of the hospital bed. —

David Fear, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for movie