Definition of movie
1
: 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
2
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?
3
movies plural
: the business of making movies : the motion-picture medium or industry
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The first known use of movie was in 1909
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