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movie theater

[moo-vee thee-uh-ter]

noun

  1. a building or part of a building having seating for an audience and a large screen for showing movies.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of movie theater1

First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences

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The first, for indecent exposure in an adult movie theater, “I lost control of my anonymity, and it was devastating.”

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“I live in a smaller city with no independent movie theater, and with the death of movie rental stores, it was just harder to see things.”

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The carefully constructed boundary between Paul Reubens and Pee-wee Herman was all but annihilated when Reubens was arrested for indecent exposure in 1991 at an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Fla., where his parents lived.

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Schoenberg no doubt attended movies in what is now the Nimoy, which was a movie theater until its recent renovation as a performing space for UCLA.

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So she knows what it’s like to be kosher, and I guess it’d be a good excuse for sneaking in food to the movie theater.

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