movies
- 1Plural of movie.
The festival screened a dozen independent movies over the weekend.
Most of his favorite movies were released in the 1990s.
Note
A regular plural, movie plus -s, that counts films as separate works: three movies, her early movies. The same spelling also serves as the plural-only word for the cinema, so context decides whether movies means several films or a night out. Movie itself belongs to the English of the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the plural carries that regional color with it.
- 2A theater showing films, or the activity of going out to watch them.
They took the kids to the movies as a birthday treat.
After dinner we decided to catch a late show at the movies.
Note
Here the plural no longer counts anything: a trip to the movies may mean seeing a single film. The word is fixed in the plural and almost always takes the definite article, as in going to the movies or a night at the movies. It can name either the building or the outing itself. Without the article, movies slips back into the ordinary plural of separate films.
movies is a form of movie
movie, noun: A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen quickly enough to create the appearance of motion. Full entry
- Forms
- moviemovies plural
- Spelling
- movie → movies: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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