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cinema verite(encyclopedia)
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cinema (oh)



[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: cinematograph 'movie camera, movie show' (19-20 centuries), from French cinematographe, from Greek kinema 'movement' + French -graphe 'recording instrument']
[C] especially BrE a building in which films are shown
American Equivalent: movie theater
::It's on at the local cinema.
the cinema
BrE if you go to the cinema, you go to a cinema to see a film
::We decided to go to the cinema .
[singular,U] the skill or industry of making films
::a leading figure in Italian cinema