moviegoern.
/ˈmuːvɪˌɡəʊə/, U.S. /ˈmuviˌɡoʊər/ A person who goes to the cinema, esp. regularly.
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film fan1908
picturegoer1911
cinemagoer1913
cinemaphile1914
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cineaste1926
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1916 Photoplay Apr. 138/2 Before Pat went to France to fight in the trenches he had been a regular movie-goer in Dublin.
1923 T. Lane What's Wrong with Movies? 49 The author's name..means absolutely nothing to the bulk of movie-goers.
1953 Time 27 July 76/1 There is..a danger that some impressionable movie-goers, unable to make up their minds which of the stars they prefer, may go quietly hysterical.
1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 146 He was not quite the betranced moviegoer his father had been.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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