bioscope

Etymology

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

noun

  1. An early form of movie projector
  2. (South Africa, India, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, 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

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