noun

le cinéma

cinema

C'est un endroit où l'on va pour regarder des films sur un grand écran.

Cinéma means cinema or movies. It can refer to:

The art or industry of making films: le cinéma français — French cinema.
A movie theater: aller au cinéma — to go to the movies.
A show of exaggerated emotion or fuss, informally: faire du cinéma — to make a scene.

Cinéma is a masculine noun: le cinéma. Its plural is cinémas.

It is a shortened form of cinématographe , a word formed from Greek roots meaning “movement” and “writing.”

salle de cinéma — a movie theater; more specific than cinéma.
septième art — “the seventh art,” a more literary way to refer to cinema as an art form.
comédie — in an informal sense, a pretense or act; similar to cinéma when it means exaggerated behavior.

There is no direct antonym covering all meanings of cinéma.