Origin: Latin suffix -ment
Movement has 12 different meanings across 1 category:
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
"he was a charter member of the movement"
"politicians have to respect a mass movement"
"he led the national liberation front"
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
"the second movement is slow and melodic"
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
"he supported populist campaigns"
"they worked in the cause of world peace"
"the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"
"the movement to end slavery"
"contributed to the war effort"
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
"the cinema relies on apparent motion"
"the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement"
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
"it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement"
Physical motion between points in space.
"The sudden movement of the car caused me to spill my coffee on the dashboard."
In plain English: Movement is when something changes its position from where it was before to somewhere else.
"The movement of the crowd made it difficult to see the stage."
Usage: Use "movement" to describe the act of changing position or moving from one place to another, such as the vehicle's sudden movement down the street. It refers specifically to physical displacement rather than social causes or artistic styles.
The word movement entered Middle English from the Old French movement, derived from the verb meaning "to move." It replaced an earlier native English term related to stirring and is a doublet of moment and momentum.