What MOVIE means
A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
That is the short version. Read on for how to say MOVIE, how to use it, and a quick way to make it stick.
MOVIE at a glance
- Word: MOVIE
- Part of speech: noun
- Pronunciation: /ˈmuvi/
- Meaning: A form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement.
- Example: They went to a movie every Saturday night.
Keep this box in view while you read the rest of the page. A short summary like this is often enough for a quick lookup, and the sections below are for when you want the meaning to actually stay with you.
How to say MOVIE
Pronunciation: /ˈmuvi/
Part of speech: noun
Say MOVIE out loud a few times. Hearing your own voice say a new word is one of the fastest ways to remember both its sound and its meaning. Try saying it slowly first, then at normal speed, then inside a full sentence. If a part of the pronunciation trips you up, slow down on that part alone before putting the whole word back together.
MOVIE in a sentence
They went to a movie every Saturday night.
Notice how MOVIE fits into that sentence as noun. Try swapping in your own subject and see if the sentence still makes sense. If it does, you have understood the meaning of MOVIE, not just memorized it.
Ways to remember MOVIE
A new word sticks better when you do something with it, not just read it.
Say it, then use it. Repeat MOVIE once, then build one sentence of your own with it today.
Connect it to something you know. Think of a moment from your own week where MOVIE could apply, even loosely.
Spell it out. Cover the word, spell MOVIE from memory, then check. This catches the letters your eyes skipped over the first time.
Come back tomorrow. A word reviewed a day later is far more likely to stay than one read once and left.
Notice it in the wild. Once you know MOVIE, you will start spotting it in things you read. Each time you notice it, the meaning gets a little more solid.
Play a board with MOVIE
A definition is easier to keep once you have used the word under a little pressure. Try today's word game, or search for more words like MOVIE with the word finder. Missed a word along the way? The vocabulary quiz is a quick way to check what stuck, and missed words come back around for review instead of disappearing.
For teachers and parents
This page works well as a quick reference before a lesson or a homework check. Look up a word, read the definition and example together, then ask the student to build a new sentence with it. A student who can use MOVIE correctly in a sentence they made up has learned it. One who can only repeat the definition back has not, yet.
A quick classroom routine: put MOVIE on the board, cover the definition, and ask the class to guess the meaning from the example sentence alone. Reveal the real definition after a few guesses. It takes a minute and gets students reasoning about context clues instead of just memorizing.
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The letters in MOVIE
- Length: 5 letters
- Vowels: 3 (O, I, E)
- Different letters: 5, all different
- First letter: M, last letter: E
Words built from the same letters
- VOICE: The distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech.