1
: a recording of moving images that tells a story and that people watch on a screen or television : motion picture
watched a movie after dinner
a movie about the Civil War
an action movie
2
movies plural
: a showing of a motion picture especially in a theater
went to the movies last Friday
also
: a theater that shows movies
What's playing at the movies?
3
movies plural
: the business of making movies : the motion-picture medium or industry
Examples of movie in a Sentence
He wants to work in the movies.
a career in the movies
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And also cast availability, where this is the main project for all three of those actors, even if ones like Gomez dip out for a movie ever so often.
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Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Nina Dobrev and Teresa Palmer also star in the ensemble movie which is filming in Australia.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
The color-grading choice was particularly popular in movies at the turn of the millennium, a sickly tint that conveyed metropolitan gothic sensibilities and disaffection while amping up the physical sallowness of already-pallid leads.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
His cohorts include director/editors like Steven Soderbergh (who also shoots his movies), Frederick Wiseman (who holds the boom mic while directing camera), and, on his smaller productions, David Lynch (who also did his own sound design).
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2025
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Paul Tassi, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Nina Dobrev and Teresa Palmer also star in the ensemble movie which is filming in Australia.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2025
The color-grading choice was particularly popular in movies at the turn of the millennium, a sickly tint that conveyed metropolitan gothic sensibilities and disaffection while amping up the physical sallowness of already-pallid leads.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
His cohorts include director/editors like Steven Soderbergh (who also shoots his movies), Frederick Wiseman (who holds the boom mic while directing camera), and, on his smaller productions, David Lynch (who also did his own sound design).
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Movie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/movie. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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movie
noun
mov·ie
ˈmü-vē 
2
a
: a story represented in motion pictures
b
pl : a showing of a movie
went to the movies yesterday
3
plural
: the business of making movies : the motion-picture industry
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