Bioscope
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bioscope is a noun meaning An early form of movie projector.
Meaning
An early form of movie projector.
More Meanings
- (South Africa, India, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Pakistan, dated) A cinema or movie theatre.
Example Sentences
Like their Western brothers, groups of native youths [in Burma] from out-lying places set out cheerfully on Saturday nights to visit the nearest "Bioscope", as they call the cinema[.]
Word Forms
- bioscopes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cinematoscope, projectoscope, biopticon, phantoscope, kinematoscope, eidoloscope.
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