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( cinemas)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A cinema is a place where people go to watch films for entertainment. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use movie theater , movie house )
The country has relatively few cinemas.
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2.
You can talk about the cinema when you are talking about seeing a film in a cinema. ( mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use the movies )
I can’t remember the last time we went to the cinema...
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3.
Cinema is the business and art of making films.
Contemporary African cinema has much to offer in its vitality and freshness.
= film
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