cinemaddict

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noun

A film enthusiast; movieholic.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nouncinemaddict (plural cinemaddicts)

plural cinemaddicts

  1. datedA film enthusiast; movieholic.

    By the time she left Iowa, she was a movie fan—or as Harper's magazine described it in 1907, a “cinemaddict."

    2005, Samantha Barbas, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons, →ISBN, page 26
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    Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more. A true cinemaddict can extend his/her score to a possible one hundred points by naming in addition the fifty actors who played the characters capitalized in the scene descriptions.

    1986, “Quarterly Quiz: I Heard It At The Movies”, in The opera quarterly, volume 4, numbers 1-2

    These works have their roots in Lowry's vast, lifelong experience as "cinemaddict," roots that were set when as a child he saw the early epics of D.W. Griffith, roots that were nourished in the 1920s by the important contemporary films of European and Russian directors and, later, by films such as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.

    1986, Eugene P. Walz, Flashback: People and Institutions in Canadian Film History, page 65

    "While 11,500,000 cinemaddicts sit in their favorite cinemansions of an average Sunday, 34,000,000 radio fans listen to Jack Benny on the air. On an average Monday 5,428,000 go to the movies; 26,000,000 stay at home to hear the Lux Radio Teatre program," Gallup noted.

    2017, Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley, Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, →ISBN, page 246

Origin

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APA

cinemaddict. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cinemaddict

MLA

“cinemaddict.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cinemaddict. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cinemaddict,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cinemaddict.

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