bioscope
nounEtymology From bio- + -scope. Modern use in South Africa is under the influence of Afrikaans bioskoop.
1
An early form of movie projector.
2
Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Dated A cinema or movie theatre.
- 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[.]1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175:
- Related terms
- bioscopy