Hypertext Webster Gateway: "movie"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Movie \Mov"ie\, n.
A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used
in pl. [Slang or Colloq.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
movie
n : a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of
images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they
went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot
on location" [syn: {film}, {picture}, {moving picture}, {motion
picture}, {picture show}, {pic}, {flick}]
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