elokuva — meaning in English

English meaning

• cinema noun A building where films are shown to the public.
• movie noun A film made for entertainment, shown in cinemas or streamed at home.
• picture noun A drawing, painting, or photograph representing something.

Senses

elokuva is used for these senses in English:

• cinema (countable) A movie theatre, a movie house
• cinema (film, uncountable) Films collectively.
• movie (chiefly, North America, AU, NZ) A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion; a film.
• picture (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).

cinema — full definition

1. noun A building where films are shown to the public.
2. noun Films collectively, or the art and industry of filmmaking.

movie — full definition

1. noun A film made for entertainment, shown in cinemas or streamed at home.
2. noun A cinema, especially in the phrase "the movies."

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