MOVIE
What does "MOVIE" mean?
A story or sequence of events recorded as moving images and shown on a screen.
Meanings
- A motion picture; a recorded sequence of moving images, usually with sound, telling a story. They watched an old black-and-white movie with the lights off.
- A showing of such a film, or the cinema itself. We grabbed popcorn before the movie started. informal
Did you know?
- 'Movie' was once a slangy, faintly disreputable word - it began around 1912 as a quick American clipping of 'moving picture', the way 'selfie' would later clip 'self-portrait'.
Word origin
A shortening of 'moving picture', first recorded in American English around 1909-1912 as a casual, originally slang term for the new medium.
Remember it
MOVIE = 'movi' from 'moving' + E; a movie is just 'moving' with the picture left to your imagination.
A little poem
Dark room, bright rectangle-
strangers cry at the same scene
and never speak of it.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why don't movies ever get lost? Because they always know how to find the plot - until the sequel.
What it teaches
A movie is twenty-four still frames a second pretending to move; most things that feel alive are stillness, hurried.
Quick facts
What does MOVIE mean?
A story or sequence of events recorded as moving images and shown on a screen.
Is MOVIE a valid word?
Yes — MOVIE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MOVIE?
MOVIE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does MOVIE come from?
A shortening of 'moving picture', first recorded in American English around 1909-1912 as a casual, originally slang term for the new medium.
What can MOVIE teach us?
A movie is twenty-four still frames a second pretending to move; most things that feel alive are stillness, hurried.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.