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The two terms are interchangeable.

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1. Angie m Says:
   February 19th, 2010 at 2:08 pm

   The two terms are interchangeable.
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2. sugerjoy Says:
   February 19th, 2010 at 2:31 pm

   Cinema is english, and movie theater is american, obviously both of them are english words that mean the same thing but just like a lot of other nouns some are used in the UK and others in the United States.
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3. alexander_loozun Says:
   February 19th, 2010 at 3:20 pm

   I am not an English native speaker but I really know the diference:
   cinema is the same that the movie theater
   but cinema is in British English
   and movie theater is in American English
   it means that cinema is commonly used in Great Britain and movie theater in the USA (and probably in Canada, Australia and New Zealand)
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4. boring_chore Says:
   February 19th, 2010 at 3:51 pm

   They are basically the same word.

   Cinema is short for cinematography, the art of photographing and lighting moving pictures. Movie theater is literally a theater for watching the finished moving pictures.

   Cinema is perhaps a touch more high-brow than movie theater and is more archaic. More people use movie theater, but most people nowadays just say they are going to the movies.
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