cinematheque
noun
cinematheque is a noun meaning “A film archive with small cinemas, screening classic and art-house films” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-I-N-E-M-A-T-H-E-Q-U-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cinematheque is cinematheques.
What does cinematheque mean?
noun
- 1
A film archive with small cinemas, screening classic and art-house films.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cinematheque
- cinematheques plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cinematheque?
Cinematheque appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cinematheque in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense film archive with small cinemas, screening classic and art-house films:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | cinemateca |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.