kino

¹ American  

[kee-noh] / ˈki noʊ /

noun

plural

kinos

1. (in Europe) a movie theater; cinema.

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Kino ² American  

[kee-noh] / ˈki noʊ /

noun

1. Eusebio Francisco Padre KinoFather Kino, 1645?–1711, Tyrolean-born explorer and missionary in SW North America.

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kino British  

/ ˈkiːnəʊ /

noun

1. Also called: kino gum.  a dark red resin obtained from various tropical plants, esp an Indian leguminous tree, Pterocarpus marsupium, used as an astringent and in tanning

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Usage

What else does kino mean? Kino can variously refer to a category of art-house cinema on internet message boards, an experimental film movement, or, controversially, a term for intimate touch among so-called pickup artists.

Etymology

Origin of kino

First recorded in 1925–30; from German, shortened form of Kinematograph, from French cinématographe “movie camera/projector”; see origin at cinematograph

Example Sentences

"It's kino," he tells me—the Bicol word for rat.

From Slate • Feb. 29, 2012

The tram that used to run downtown has disappeared, and a new wing has been added to the elementary school I attended, but the old kino, which I recognized instantly, is still a movie theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may be procured also from several other sources, such as oak, horse chestnut, sumach, and cinchona barks, catechu, kino, &c.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

For roughness or dryness, alum, oak sawdust, rhatany or kino.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

The chief astringents are the mineral acids, alum, lime-water, chalk, salts of copper, zinc, iron, lead, silver; and among vegetables catechu, kino, oak-bark, and galls.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various