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cinemaddict

cinemaddict noun: a film enthusiast; movieholic.

Noun

cinemaddict (plural cinemaddicts)

  1. (dated) A film enthusiast; movieholic.
    • Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more. A true cinemaddict can extend his/her score to a possible one hundred points by naming in addition the fifty actors who played the characters capitalized in the scene descriptions.1986, “Quarterly Quiz: I Heard It At The Movies”, in The opera quarterly, volume 4, numbers 1-2
    • These works have their roots in Lowry's vast, lifelong experience as "cinemaddict," roots that were set when as a child he saw the early epics of D.W. Griffith, roots that were nourished in the 1920s by the important contemporary films of European and Russian directors and, later, by films such as...1986, Eugene P. Walz, Flashback: People and Institutions in Canadian Film History, page 65

Examples of cinemaddict in a sentence

  • These works have their roots in Lowry's vast, lifelong experience as "cinemaddict," roots that were set when as a child he saw the early epics of D.W.1986, Eugene P. Walz, Flashback: People and Institutions in Canadian Film History, page 65:
  • By the time she left Iowa, she was a movie fan—or as Harper's magazine described it in 1907, a “cinemaddict."2005, Samantha Barbas, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons, →ISBN, page 26:
  • "While 11,500,000 cinemaddicts sit in their favorite cinemansions of an average Sunday, 34,000,000 radio fans listen to Jack Benny on the air.2017, Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley, Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, →ISBN, page 246:

Forms of cinemaddict

pluralcinemaddicts

Origin of cinemaddict

Blend of cinema + addict.

Questions about cinemaddict

What does cinemaddict mean?
Cinemaddict means a film enthusiast; movieholic.
How do you use cinemaddict in a sentence?
These works have their roots in Lowry's vast, lifelong experience as "cinemaddict," roots that were set when as a child he saw the early epics of D.W.
What part of speech is cinemaddict?
Cinemaddict is a noun.
What is the plural of cinemaddict?
The plural of cinemaddict is cinemaddicts.

Words near cinemaddict in the dictionary

  1. cinema verite
  2. cinema-goer
  3. cinema-goers
  4. cinemacast
  5. cinemacasting
  6. cinemaddict
  7. cinemaddicts
  8. cinemagoer
  9. cinemagoers
  10. cinemagoing
  11. cinemagraph

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