Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - movie

(movies) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A movie is a film. (AM; also BRIT INFORMAL) In the first movie Tony Curtis ever made he played a grocery clerk. N-COUNT 2. You can talk about the movies when you are talking about seeing a movie in a movie theater. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use the cinema) He took her to the movies. N-PLURAL: the N