WordNet
motion-picture show
n. a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, picture show, pic, flick]
Usage examples of "motion-picture show".
Friday evening, his parents kissed him good-night and walked out of the house into the hushed cathedral weather toward a motion-picture show.
It had a nursery, a Thursday evening supper with a short bright missionary lecture afterward, a gymnasium, a fortnightly motion-picture show, a library of technical books for young workmen—.