cinemas
- 1Plural of cinema.
Many small-town cinemas could not afford the switch to digital projectors.
The festival celebrates the national cinemas of Africa and South America.
Note
The plural mostly counts buildings, because films taken together and the film industry are both uncountable. The art of film-making is the exception: it can be counted when it splits into traditions, as in the national cinemas of Africa, while a film lover still loves cinema, not cinemas. The online habit of calling a great scene cinema stays singular too.
cinemas is a form of cinema
cinema, noun: Films considered as a whole or as an art form, with their own techniques, history, and traditions, as in 'independent cinema' or 'the language of cinema'. Full entry
- Forms
- cinemacinemas plural
- Spelling
- cinema → cinemas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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