picture show

noun

a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

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they went to a movie every Saturday night

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the film was shot on location

• Syn:

↑movie, ↑film, ↑picture, ↑moving picture, ↑moving-picture show, ↑motion picture, ↑motion-picture show, ↑pic, ↑flick

• Derivationally related forms: ↑film (for: ↑film)

• Members of this Topic:

↑dub, ↑synchronize, ↑synchronise, ↑film, ↑shoot, ↑take, ↑videotape, ↑tape, ↑reshoot

• Hypernyms: ↑show, ↑product, ↑production

• Hyponyms:

↑telefilm, ↑feature, ↑feature film, ↑final cut, ↑home movie, ↑collage film, ↑coming attraction, ↑shoot-'em-up, ↑short subject, ↑documentary, ↑docudrama, ↑documentary film, ↑infotainment, ↑cinema verite, ↑film noir, ↑skin flick, ↑rough cut, ↑silent movie, ↑silent picture, ↑silents, ↑slow motion, ↑talking picture, ↑talkie, ↑three-D, ↑3-D, ↑3D, ↑musical, ↑musical comedy, ↑musical theater

• Part Meronyms:

↑sequence, ↑episode, ↑credit, ↑subtitle, ↑caption, ↑credits, ↑scene, ↑shot

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noun

1. : an exhibition of paintings

2. : motion picture

3. : a motion-picture theater

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Older Use.

1. See motion picture.

2. a motion-picture theater.

[1865-70, in sense "exhibition of pictures"; 1910-15 for current senses]

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picture show,

U.S. Informal.

1. a motion picture.

2. a motion-picture theater.