home cinema

home cinema

English

Noun

home cinema (plural home cinemas)

1. (UK) a system for showing cinema-quality films at home; usually comprising high-definition television and surround sound
2. (rare, by extension) A dedicated room for such a system.

Synonyms

• home theater (US)

Translations

theatre-quality movie system at home

Arabic: سِينِمَا مَنْزَلِيَّة‎ f (sīnimā manzaliyya) Chinese: Mandarin: 家庭影院 (jiātíng yǐngyuàn), 家庭劇院／家庭剧院 (jiātíng jùyuàn) Czech: domácí kino n Dutch: thuisbioscoop (nl) m Finnish: kotiteatteri French: home cinema (fr) m, cinéma à domicile (fr) m, cinéma chez soi m, cinédom (fr) m, cinéma maison (fr) m (Canada) German: Heimkino (de) n Hungarian: házi mozi (hu) Italian: home theater m, home theatre (it) m, home cinema (it) m Japanese: ホームシアター (hōmushiatā), ホームシネマ (hōmushinema) Portuguese: home cinema m, home theater (pt) m Russian: дома́шний кинотеа́тр m (domášnij kinoteátr) Slovak: domáce kino n Spanish: cine en casa m, cine hogareño Swedish: hemmabio c

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English home cinema.

Noun

home cinema m (plural home cinemas)

1. home cinema (theatre-quality film system at home)

   Synonym: home theater

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English home cinema.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˌxom θiˈnema/ [ˌxõm θiˈne.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˌxom siˈnema/ [ˌxõm siˈne.ma]

Noun

home cinema m (plural home cinemas)

1. home cinema (system)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.