bioscope

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ -scope. Modern use in South Africa is under the influence of Afrikaans bioskoop.

Noun

bioscope (plural bioscopes)

1. An early form of movie projector
2. (South Africa, India, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, Serbia, Montenegro, dated) A cinema or movie theatre.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175:

     Like their Western brothers, groups of native youths [in Burma] from out-lying places set out cheerfully on Saturday nights to visit the nearest "Bioscope", as they call the cinema[.]

Related terms

• bioscopy

Descendants

• → Kurtöp: བེས་ཀོབ (beskop)

Translations

an early form of movie projector

• Hindi: बायस्कोप (hi) m (bāyaskop)
• Polish: bioskop (pl) m
• Portuguese: bioscópio m

French

Noun

bioscope m (plural bioscopes)

1. bioscope