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cinemascope

cinemascope noun: an anamorphic lens series used from 1953-1967 for shooting Twentieth Century Fox widescreen movies.

Noun (1)

cinemascope (uncountable)

  1. An anamorphic lens series used from 1953-1967 for shooting Twentieth Century Fox widescreen movies
    • [Owen Weingott] had after all choreographed the first mass duel in cinemascope for Byron Haskin's Long John Silver.2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 102

Noun (2) capitalized: CinemaScope

CinemaScope (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of cinemascope.

Forms of cinemascope

alternative formCinemaScope

Questions about cinemascope

What does cinemascope mean?
Cinemascope means an anamorphic lens series used from 1953-1967 for shooting Twentieth Century Fox widescreen movies.
What part of speech is cinemascope?
Cinemascope is a noun.

Words near cinemascope in the dictionary

  1. cinemaphobes
  2. cinemaphotographer
  3. cinemaphotographers
  4. cinemaphotography
  5. cinemas
  6. cinemascope
  7. cinematheque
  8. cinematheques
  9. cinematherapy
  10. cinematic
  11. cinematical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cinemascope (page history and authors); CinemaScope (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.

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