Meaning

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

noun a medium that disseminates moving pictures

noun photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European…

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