Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A film or movie enthusiast.
Wiktionary
- n. A enthusiast of films and the cinema; a cineast
Etymologies
- From French cinéphile. (Wiktionary)
- French cinéphile : ciné, cinema; see cineaste + -phile, -phile. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A cineaste is a filmmaker that is informed by a love of the cinema, whereas as a cinephile is a mere admirer of film.”
Scorsese Adds Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen to Hugo Cabret | /Film
“That guy isn't just a "cinephile", he is something else.”
“Loach at his best produces some of the best this country has to offer in filmmaking, and he belongs to a great traditio of social realism - presumably Tim Almond and his 'cinephile' friends would be happier with more Billy Elliots and Calendar Girls?”
“Even the most intensely cinephile guys—they have zero interest.”
The Wall Street Journal: L.A. Nights: Bret Easton Ellis at the Movies
“DVD Focus 'Georges Méliès, First Wizard Of the Cinema' (2008) Looking for a Christmas present that will dazzle a cinephile friend (or bring you up to speed on the seminal figure that inspired Martin Scorsese to do what he did in "Hugo")?”
“Hollywood movies about moviemaking are always a treat for a cinephile and he layers in so many references, and does it so well.”
“While the red carpet presentations at the 34th Starz Denver Film Festival feature Oscar-worthy films with box-office potential, there are enough under-the-radar temptations to please the most critical cinephile.”
“The latter aspect likely appeals greatly to Scorsese, as he is as great a film historian and cinephile as he is a filmmaker.”
“But Tarantino is renowned for being a cinephile as well as a filmmaker.”
“As Itard attempts to rescue Victor, so the great film critic André Bazin rescued Truffaut, bringing him into his home and encouraging him as a writer and cinephile.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cinephile’.
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Logophily: Words with "phil"
List of words containing the string phil-, -phil-, -phil, or -phile, such as philopatry, bibliophile, and neutrophil.
Greek: φιλία/φίλος, φιλια-/φιλο - love, loving, love of, fondness for, at...philopatry, bibliophile, neutrophil, thalassophily, stegophilist, philoxeny, psychrophile, logophily, photophilia, photophilous, heliophilous, philornithic and 148 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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phile-lovin'
All that is loved - from sublime to macabre - in this world and beyond...
logophile, linguaphile, bibliophile, francophile, cinephile, ailurophile, audiophile, arctophile, xenophile, homophile, pogonophile, ecdysiophile and 5 more...
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-PHILE Words
lover of the specified person or thing
acrophile, anglophile, arctophile, astrophile, audiophile, autophile, bibliophile, alcoholphile, cinephile, demophile, discophile, francophile and 22 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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vjmario's Words
solipsistic, vernacular, fugue, concussed, truthiness, pablum, bashful, neologism, cinephile, maven, teutonic, cynical and 7 more...
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Missed words
Words I missed when practicing for the Spelling Bee
seicento, gnomon, clepsydra, detent, coccolithophore, gonyaulax, quoits, lamellibranch, alliteration, innocuous, saboteur, affenpinscher and 79 more...
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self-glorification
words that describe me, for better or for worse.
petulant, obsessive, cinephile, neurotic, fashion, grammar, narcissism, garrulous, poor, exorbitant, antsy, obstreperous and 23 more...
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beautiful words
iridesce, crepuscular, quixotic, champagne, sententious, gaucherie, catatonic, cinephile, elan, jete, vicarious, camaraderie and 8 more...
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