multiscreen
A cinema with more than one screen.
Adjective
- Having multiple screens.
- That theater's a multiscreen movie complex now, but it used to house an in-the-round stage with fat, soft, fall-asleep seats and lots of garish red carpeting. - 1988 October 7, Anthony Adler, “Some Men Need Help”, in...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *moltos Latin multus Latin multīder. Middle English multi- English multi- English screen English multiscreen From multi- + screen.
Noun
- A cinema with more than one screen.
- Multiscreens can show blockbusters which have not yet attracted their full audience. - 1997, AIMAC Proceedings, page 492:
- Conventional cinemas had now mostly been converted to 'multiscreens'; […] - 2017, Stephen Dowle, The National Bus Company: The Middle Years: