word-vault/dist/data/cards/ci/cinema.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "cinema",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "image": "data/images/ci/city.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a building in which films are shown",
            "sensetop": "in a cinemaat a cinema",
            "labels": "(especially British English)North American English usually",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the local cinema"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film has just opened in cinemas across the UK.",
                    "contextForm": "in a cinema"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were sitting in the cinema, waiting for the film to begin."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a screening at a cinema in Leicester Square in London",
                    "contextForm": "at a cinema"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cinema was packed every night for his latest film."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The cinema was packed, and we ended up sitting in the second row."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a multiplex cinema on the edge of town"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Film and theatre", "Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["packed", "multiplex"],
                "verb + cinema": ["go to", "be on at"],
                "cinema + noun": ["screen", "audience", "advertising"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "when you go to the cinema or to the movies, you go to a cinema to see a film",
            "sensetop": "at the cinemain the cinema",
            "labels": "(British English)North American English",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I used to **go to the cinema** every week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How often do you go to the cinema?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I haven't seen a film at the cinema for nearly 2 years.",
                    "contextForm": "at the cinema"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is there anything good on at the cinema at the moment?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hated it when I saw it in the cinema.",
                    "contextForm": "in the cinema"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["packed", "multiplex"],
                "verb + cinema": ["go to", "be on at"],
                "cinema + noun": ["screen", "audience", "advertising"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "films as an art or an industry",
            "labels": "(especially British English)North American English usually(British English)(North American English)(British English)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "one of the great successes of British cinema"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the most influential film in the history of cinema"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was honoured for his outstanding contribution to cinema."
                },
                {
                    "text": "contemporary/world cinema"
                },
                {
                    "text": "mainstream/independent/arthouse/avant-garde cinema"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She started making films in the last years of silent cinema."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["commercial", "Hollywood", "mainstream"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪnəmə//ˈsɪnəmɑː/",
                "audio": "ci/cinema/cinema__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsɪnəmə/",
                "audio": "ci/cinema/cinema__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 20th cent.: from French cinéma, abbreviation of cinématographe, from Greek kinēma, kinēmat- ‘movement’, from kinein ‘to move’."
}