movie

noun

mov·​ie ˈmü-vē 

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

Synonyms

• film
• flick
• flicker
• motion picture
• moving picture
• picture

Examples of movie in a Sentence

He wants to work in the movies.

a career in the movies

Recent Examples on the Web

Bay went on to helm Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, several Transformers movies, and, most recently, 2022's Ambulance. —Rendy Jones, EW.com, 12 June 2024

Instead, his performances in movies such as Nacho Libre, School of Rock, and High Fidelity demonstrate the comfortable charisma of a class clown who survived maturity and grew up to be the life of the party. —Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 June 2024

Their names then made the big screen in the Christopher Reeve series of Superman movies in the 1970s and '80s. —Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024

There is a mini golf course and a frisbee park that movie watchers enjoyed before the films start. —Jordan Green, Detroit Free Press, 12 June 2024

Word History

Etymology

moving picture

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing movie

• B movie
• home movie
• movie house

Kids Definition

movie

noun

mov·​ie ˈmü-vē 

1

: motion picture sense 1

2

a

: a story represented in motion pictures

b

pl : a showing of a movie

went to the movies yesterday

3

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