1 (BrE) (AmE movie theater, theater) [C] a building in which films/movies are shown:
the local cinema
2 (the cinema) [sing.] (BrE) (AmE the movies [pl.]) when you go to the cinema or to the movies, you go to a cinema/movie theater to see a film/movie:
I used to go to the cinema every week.
3 [U,sing.] (especially BrE) (AmE usually the movies [pl.]) films/movies as an art or an industry:
one of the great successes of British cinema
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Is cinema a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cinema is tagged as noun.
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