The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. A sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient rapidity as to create the illusion of motion and continuity.
n. A connected cinematic narrative represented in this form.
n. A showing of a movie. Often used in the plural: During the movie, the person in front of me kept talking. Would you like to go to the movies tonight?
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A motion picture.
n. A motion picture show; the event of showing a motion picture. In the pl., the event of showing a motion picture at a movie theater.
n. The motion picture industry or medium, generally.
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n. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
Word Usage
"You can still sell movie adaptations to a limited extent, by getting it out before the movie* or releasing it in that brief** months-long window between the movie's theatrical run and its DVD release."