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6-letter words (3 found)

ANEMIC,CINEMA,ICEMAN,

5-letter words (8 found)

AMICE,AMINE,AMNIC,ANIME,ENIAC,MANIC,MINAE,MINCE,

4-letter words (28 found)

ACME,ACNE,AINE,AMEN,AMIE,AMIN,ANCE,CAIN,CAME,CAMI,CANE,CINE,EINA,EMIC,MACE,MAIN,MANE,MANI,MEAN,MEIN,MICA,MICE,MIEN,MINA,MINE,NAME,NEMA,NICE,

3-letter words (21 found)

ACE,AIM,AIN,AME,AMI,ANE,ANI,CAM,CAN,EAN,ICE,MAC,MAE,MAN,MEN,MIC,MNA,NAE,NAM,NIE,NIM,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AI,AM,AN,EA,EM,EN,IN,MA,ME,MI,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 74 words from cinema according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cinema

cinema

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, movement) + γράφω (gráphō, write, record). Compare German Kino (cinema), ultimately from the same Greek source.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪn.ɪ.mə/, /ˈsɪn.ɪ.mɑː/

Noun

cinema (countable and uncountable, plural cinemas)

  1. (countable) A movie theatre, a movie house
    Synonyms: (UK) pictures, (chiefly US) moviehouse, movies, (chiefly US) movie theater, (rare) movie theatre
  2. (film, uncountable) Films collectively.
  3. (film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.
  4. (film, countable, uncountable) The art of making films and movies; cinematography
    Synonym: seventh art

Derived terms

Related terms

  • cine
  • cinematic
  • cinematographic
  • cinematography
  • kinema

Descendants

  • Welsh: sinema
  • Hindi: सिनेमा (sinemā)
  • Tamil: சினிமா (ciṉimā)
  • Telugu: సినిమా (sinimā), సైన్మ (sainma), సీన్మ (sīnma)
  • Yoruba: sinimá

Translations

Anagrams

  • Mencia, anemic, came in, iceman

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [siˈnɛ.mə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [siˈne.mə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [siˈne.ma]

Noun

cinema m (plural cinemes)

  1. cinema

Related terms

  • cinematògraf
  • cinematografia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma, ultimately from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, movement).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ci‧ne‧ma

Noun

cinema m (plural cinema's, diminutive cinemaatje n)

  1. cinema; movie theater (building where films are shown to an audience)
  2. (uncountable) cinema (the art or industry of making films)

Related terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma, from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, movement).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ne.ma/
  • Rhymes: -inema
  • Hyphenation: cì‧ne‧ma

Noun

cinema m (invariable)

  1. (art and industry) cinema
  2. (movie theatre) cinema, movie theater, film theatre
    Synonyms: cinematografo, sala cinematografica

Related terms

See also

  • teatro

Anagrams

  • macine, minace, nemica

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kiːˈneː.ma/, [kiːˈneːmä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈne.ma/, [t͡ʃiˈnɛːmä]

Noun

cīnēma n (genitive cīnēmatis); third declension

  1. (New Latin) cinema

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma or a reduction of cinematógrafo, ultimately from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, movement).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -emɐ
  • Homophone: sinema
  • Hyphenation: ci‧ne‧ma

Noun

cinema m (plural cinemas)

  1. cinema; movie theater (building where films are shown to an audience)
  2. (uncountable) cinema (the art or industry of making films)
    Synonym: cinematografia
  3. cinema (films from a particular place or of a particular style as a group)

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma.

Noun

cinema n (plural cinemauri)

  1. cinema

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θiˈnema/ [θiˈne.ma]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /siˈnema/ [siˈne.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Syllabification: ci‧ne‧ma

Etymology 1

Reduction of cinematógrafo.

Noun

cinema m (plural cinemas)

  1. cinema; movie theater (building where films are shown to an audience)
    Synonym: cine
  2. cinema (the art or industry of making films)
    Synonym: cine
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Reduction of cinemática.

Noun

cinema f (plural cinemas)

  1. (physics) kinematics
    Synonym: cinemática

Adjective

cinema (invariable)

  1. (physics) related to movement
    Synonym: cinemática

Further reading

  • “cinema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
  • “cinema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org