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kinema

kinema is the archaic form of cinema.

Meaning of cinema

Noun

cinema (countable and uncountable, plural cinemas)

  1. (countable) A movie theatre, a movie house.
    • The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.
  2. (uncountable) Films collectively.
    • Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.
  3. (uncountable) The film and movie industry.
    • In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].
  4. The art of making films and movies; cinematography.
    • Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].
    Synonyms:
    seventh art
  5. (Internet, uncountable) A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
    Synonyms:
    kino
    1. (Internet, broadly, humorous) Any media or event that is exemplary.
      • That game was absolute cinema.

Noun

kinema (uncountable)

  1. A Nepali dish of fermented soybean, resembling natto.

Forms of kinema

pluralkinemas

Origin of kinema

Borrowed from Nepali किनेमा (kinemā, literally “fermented flavour”), from Limbu [script needed] (ki, “fermented”) + [script needed] (nambaa, “flavor”).

Questions about kinema

What does kinema mean?
Kinema means a Nepali dish of fermented soybean, resembling natto.
What is kinema the archaic form of?
Kinema is the archaic form of cinema.
What part of speech is kinema?
Kinema is a noun.
What is the plural of kinema?
The plural of kinema is kinemas.

Words near kinema in the dictionary

  1. kinectin
  2. kinectins
  3. kinegram
  4. kinegrams
  5. Kinel
  6. kinema
  7. Kinemacolor
  8. kinemas
  9. kinematic
  10. kinematic envelope
  11. kinematic envelopes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kinema (page history and authors); cinema (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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