motion picture

1 a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track a popular novel that was made into a major motion picture Synonyms film, flick, flicker, movie, moving picture, pictureRelated Words animated cartoon, cartoon, docudrama, documentary, feature, featurette, short, short subject; silent, talkie; B movie, B picture, cofeature

2 motion pictures pl  the art or business of making a movie to the industrialist, producing motion pictures seemed a lot more glamorous than manufacturing synthetics Synonyms big screen, cinema, film, filmdom, filmland, filmmaking, moviemaking, pictures, screen, silver screenRelated Words Bollywood, Hollywood; showbiz, show business