From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe cinemathe cinemaBritish English if you go to the cinema, you go to a cinema to see a film We decided to go to the cinema. → cinema
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go to the cinema• We could go to the cinema maybe.• Everyone enjoys going to the cinema and it would be nice if it could also be taken seriously.• The last time I went to the cinema was when I saw 'Stigmata'.• My father never went to the cinema because the technicolour was bad for his epilepsy.• And so they went to the cinema.• He was to be allowed to go to the cinema with her.• One night three of us decided to go to the cinema.• Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again. 