Word.ws English Dictionary

bioscope

bioscope noun: an early form of movie projector.

Noun

bioscope (plural bioscopes)

  1. An early form of movie projector.
  2. (Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan) A cinema or movie theatre.
    • Like their Western brothers, groups of native youths [in Burma] from out-lying places set out cheerfully on Saturday nights to visit the nearest "Bioscope", as they call the cinema[.]1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175

bioscope meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Odia

bioscope in Hindi

an early form of movie projector
बायस्कोप bāyaskop

bioscope in Tamil

படக் காட்சி, படக்காட்சி, படக்காட்சிப் பெட்டி

bioscope in Odia

an early form of movie projector
ବାୟସ୍କୋପ୍ bāyaskop

Forms of bioscope

pluralbioscopes

Origin of bioscope

From bio- + -scope. Modern use in South Africa is under the influence of Afrikaans bioskoop.

Questions about bioscope

What does bioscope mean?
Bioscope means an early form of movie projector.
What is bioscope in Hindi?
Bioscope in Hindi is बायस्कोप (bāyaskop). See Bioscope meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is bioscope?
Bioscope is a noun.
What is the plural of bioscope?
The plural of bioscope is bioscopes.

Words near bioscope in the dictionary

  1. biosciences
  2. bioscientific
  3. bioscientifically
  4. bioscientist
  5. bioscientists
  6. bioscope
  7. bioscopes
  8. bioscopic
  9. bioscopies
  10. bioscopy
  11. bioscreening

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bioscope (page history and authors); bioscope (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bioscope.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bioscope. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.