movie English · revision 2563

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=clipping|attested=1912|origins=en moving picture}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ˈmuː.vi/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a shortened and altered form of [[moving picture]],^(AHD 2000)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) with the suffix [[-ie]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002) ''Moving picture'' in the cinematographic sense is from 1896.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A motion picture: 1912, American English,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) though social workers apparently used it as early as 1908.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) Merriam-Webster dates it to 1909.^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''The movies'', a motion-picture show, is first recorded in 1914,^(Barnhart 1988) and the adjective use, as in ''movie star'', from 1913.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) A cinema building is a ''movie'' in North American use from 1911.^(HTOED)^(SOED 2002) Another early name for a film was ''photoplay''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1896 – ''moving picture''.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1912 – ''movie''.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1913 – ''movie star''; adjective use.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1914 – ''the movies''.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[motion picture]]; a [[film]].^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # ''(chiefly US)'' A [[cinema]].^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # ''the movies'': a showing of a film; the film industry.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[B-movie]]

+ * [[moviedom]]

+ * [[moviegoer]]

+ * [[moviegoing]]

+ * [[movieland]]

+ * [[moviemaker]]

+ * [[Moviola]]

+ * [[movie house]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[move]]

+ * [[cinema]]

+ * [[film]]

+ * [[flick]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The SOED marks ''movie'' as originally American,^(SOED 2002) and in British use ''film'' and ''cinema'' were long the usual words.^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}