film

CEFRA1

/fɪlm/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A series of moving pictures that tells a story.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A medium used to capture images in a camera.

Examples

  • Let's stay in and watch a film.

  • The film started at 2 o'clock.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • [ˈfɪləm]
  • [fɪɫm]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.

  2. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

  3. A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.

More examples

In context

  • A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.

  • I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.

  • a clear plastic film for wrapping food

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

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 *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, sc...