# cinema

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/ · frequency rank #5,400

## Definitions
1. A movie theatre, a movie house.
2. Films collectively.
3. The film and movie industry.
4. The art of making films and movies; cinematography.
5. A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
6. A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.

## Easily confused with
- **cine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cine-vs-cinema)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ccinema`, `cienma`, `cineam`, `cinemma`, `cinmea`, `cinnema`, `cniema`, `icnema`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cinema