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movies

movies is the plural of movie.

Meaning of movie

Noun

movie (plural movies)

  1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film; a video.
  2. A professionally made motion picture of a substantive narrative work, typically around 1 to 3 hours long, typically intended for cinema, art, entertainment, and a widespread audience; a feature film, theatrical film.
    • My favorite actor is starring in the new movie.
  3. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, plural-normally) A cinema; a movie theatre.
    • Let's go to the movies.
  4. (figuratively, informal) Any event, especially one that is unpleasant or tiresome.
    • Don't worry; this isn't the first time I've been through this movie.
  5. (figuratively, slang) An extremely fun and exciting experience.
    • Every night with you is a movie!

Noun

movies pl (plural only)

  1. (Australia, Canada, US, broadly, plural, plural-only) The cinema
    • We are going to the movies for our anniversary.

Phrases with movies

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Questions about movies

What does movies mean?
Movies means the cinema.
What is movies the plural of?
Movies is the plural of movie.
What part of speech is movies?
Movies is a noun.

Words near movies in the dictionary

  1. moviemaking
  2. moviemania
  3. movieoke
  4. movieola
  5. movieolas
  6. movies
  7. moviesque
  8. moviestar
  9. moviestars
  10. movieverse
  11. movieverses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: movies (page history and authors); movie (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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