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☆ movie (mo̵̅o̅′vē)

noun

  1. film ()
  2. a showing of a film, as in a theater I'm going to a movie tonight

Etymology: contr. < moving picture

movie Idioms

the movies

  1. the film industry
  2. a showing of a film

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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