Which language has the most words for cinema (the building)?

[Joerg Polzfusz]

Hi!

I start with German:
Kino
Lichtspieltheater
Lichtspielhaus
Lichtspiele
Filmtheater
Filmbühne
Filmpalast
and the more regional Berlin term: Kintopp/Kientopp
and completely outdated and not used in the last 90+ years: Bioskop

= 7-9 different words (if you don’t mind that the English/French terms cinema, cine and cinéma are also used in names of certain cinemas)

(BTW: Lichtspiele = light plays - as opposed to the shadow plays that existed for centuries before the invention of the cinema)

So who‘s next? Someone with English (at least four terms: cinema, movie theater, movie palace and Nickelodeon)?

[Steve Klare]

Just in General, English has the most words of any language. It has fairly easy grammar, but absolutely awful spelling/pronunciation!
(I feel bad for people that have to learn it as a second language!)

My cousin from Baden-Württemberg described it as "an easy language to speak badly".

English Cinema Words:

Theater
Cinema
Multiplex
Drive-In
Arthouse
Flea-Pit
Palace
Nickelodeon


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[Graham Ritchie]

Growing up in Scottyland we referred to it, as "going to the pictures" not movies but the "pictures". If I said that out here, no one would know what I am talking about

Taking about "going to the pictures" watch below. .

[Dominique De Bast]

In French:

Cinéma
Ciné
Cinoche
Salle obscure

"Se faire une toile" means going to see a film in a cinema0 although the idiom doesn't contain precisely a word which refers to the building . "Voir un film sur grand écran" (See a film on big screen) also means that.

[Joerg Polzfusz]

I wonder if any companies’ names made it into any language other than the Dutch „bioscoop“?!
Is there something like „gonna see the lion“ (MGM theater) or „je vais au Gaumont/Pathé“?

(Bioskop/Bioscop was not only the trademarked name of the projection device invented by the Skladanowsky brothers, but also the name of a production company „Deutsche Bioskop GmbH“ of the silent era that constructed large parts of the studios in Babelsberg. The term fell out of use in Germany when the company merged with Decla who then merged with the UFA in the roaring twenties. However, the word „bioscoop“ is still used as a term for „cinema“ in Dutch.)

[Ken Finch]

As a child I was evacuated to Blackburn in Lancashire in 1944 and the local kids used to ask if I had been “t, flicks’ Took me a while to realise they meant “ goinig to the pictures”!! Another term often used in the U K is the name of the cinema, e.g? Odeon, Gaumont, Regal, Roxy or even ABC or Granada. Going to the Embassy could be confusing as this was also the name of a number of ballrooms. 😉

[Sandor Rozsa]

In Hungarian / magyarul:
kinematográf
filmszínház (=movie theater)
mozgóképszínház (=motion picture theatre)
mozi (movie)