[1895–1900; ‹ F cinématographe, equiv. to cinémat- (‹ Gk kīnēmat-, s. of ki᷇nēma motion) + -o--o- + -graphe-graph]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: apothecaries' measure, flamenco, frame of reference, hit-and-run, neon-o- is the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Greek origin (as -i- is, in compounds of Latin origin), used regularly in forming new compounds with elementsof Greek origin and often used in English as a connective irrespective of etymology(Franco-Italian; geography; seriocomic; speedometer); -graph is a combining form meaning “drawn,” “written” (lithograph; monograph). It is specialized in meaning to indicate the instrument rather than the writtenproduct of the instrument (telegraph; phonograph)
Examples of 'cinematograph' in a sentence
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Little by little the cinematograph is climbing out of contempt into honour.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
In education there is an unimagined future before the cinematograph.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A host of cinematograph operators and photographers aimed their machines at this box preparatory to the exit of the bull.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We should be the last to deny the value of the cinematograph in the social life of today.