a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
"they went to a movie every Saturday night"
"the film was shot on location"
A recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.
"We spent all evening watching the movie, mesmerized by how the rapid succession of still frames created the illusion that the actors were actually moving across the screen."
In plain English: A movie is a filmed story that people watch on a big screen or TV.
"We went to see a scary movie last night."
Usage: Use "movie" to refer to a feature-length film shown in theaters or streamed for entertainment, rather than short clips or newsreels. It functions as a common noun that can be pluralized as "movies" when discussing multiple films.
The word movie is a shortened form of the phrase "moving picture," which was first used in American English around 1908 or 1912. It combines the adjective moving with the diminutive suffix -ie to create a casual term for films.