Noun

(countable) A film.

(countable) A movie theatre, a movie house

(film, uncountable) Film or movies as a group.

(film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.

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, title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema . But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

(film, uncountable) The art of making films and movies.

Noun

(en noun)

A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.

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The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life.

A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.

His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.

A lecture theatre.

(medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.

This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!

(US) A cinema.

We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.

Drama or performance as a profession or artform.

I worked in the theater for twenty-five years.