# bioscope

Pronunciation: say "BY-oh-skohp" US /ˈbaɪoʊˌskoʊp/, UK /ˈbaɪəʊˌskəʊp/

## Noun

1. An early form of movie projector.
   - Simple: An early kind of machine that showed moving pictures on a screen.
   - _The traveling showman set up his bioscope in the village hall and charged a penny a seat._
   - _The audience gasped as the bioscope flickered to life and a train seemed to rush toward them._

## Noun

2. A cinema or movie theater: a building where movies are shown to an audience. *(dated, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa)*
   - Simple: A place where people go to watch movies on a big screen.
   - _After school the boys would walk down to the bioscope to catch the matinee._
   - _The old bioscope on Main Road was turned into a furniture shop years ago._

## Origin

Formed from bio- and -scope. Its modern use in South Africa is influenced by Afrikaans bioskoop.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/bioscope (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).