Cineplexn.
/ˈsɪnɪplɛks/, U.S. /ˈsɪnəˌplɛks/ Originally and chiefly North American.
Any of a chain of multiplex cinemas. Hence more generally (in form cineplex): a multiplex cinema, typically one perceived as showing predominantly mainstream or commercial films. Cf. multiplex adj. 7.A proprietary name in the United States.
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1978 Toronto Star 25 Nov. d1/1 Last month, he announced Cineplex, a complex of 18 tiny moviehouses in Eaton Centre, where foreign, unfamiliar and classic movies will be shown.
1982 Time (Nexis) 27 Dec. 77 This season moviemakers are playing by the old rules, with bantamweight farces and mellow romantic comedies that are luring sizable audiences to the local Cineplex.
1986 USA Today 23 May d1/2 As summer comes to the local cineplex..critics will be jeering and ticket-takers will be grinning all the way to the bank.
1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 Dec. c9/3 ‘The Gift of the Gorgon’ is compelling when it champions the power of epic theater against the onslaught of cineplex literalism.
1993 J. Updike More Matter (2000) 225 A delicacy of indication possible on the printed page, in the tiny theatre of the easy chair, becomes untrustworthy in the massy cineplex.
1997 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 12 July 6 ‘Don't lose contact guys!’ These are the few words I hear before leaving the cineplex.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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