Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An early movie projector.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A view of life, or anything which gives such a view: as, “Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners” (a book-title).
  • noun 2. A cinematograph or vita-scope.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A view of life; that which gives such a view.
  • noun archaic An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see); an archaic term replaced by movie projector.
  • noun a South African movie theater.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An early form of movie projector
  • noun South Africa, dated A cinema or movie theatre.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a South African movie theater
  • noun a kind of early movie projector

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, "bio-, life") + σκοπέω (skopeō, "I look at").

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Examples

  • “So this is the kind of bioscope the master wanted me to see!”

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • "So this is the kind of bioscope the master wanted me to see!"

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • Tibetans first called the cinema beskop, from "bioscope" one of the early terms for movies (as kinema, vitascope, etc.) and now apparently used only by South Africans, Nepalese and Tibetans.

    Phayul Latest News 2010

  • Tibetans first called the cinema beskop, from "bioscope" one of the early terms for movies (as kinema, vitascope, etc.) and now apparently used only by South Africans, Nepalese and Tibetans.

    Phayul Latest News 2010

  • Where else did an Indian youth in subtropical South Africa learn how to be a gangster but at the bioscope?

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • Where else did an Indian youth in subtropical South Africa learn how to be a gangster but at the bioscope?

    Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010

  • Borrowed words like these were in common use throughout the country, while in Lhasa you could smoke a shik-ray (cigarette), chew gig-chiri (chewing gum), or buy a tikkus (ticket) to the beskop (bioscope, cinema) to watch the movies of Charlie Chumping.

    languagehat.com: HYBRID TIBETAN. 2005

  • These shifting and confused gusts of memory never lasted for more than a few seconds; it often happened that, in my spell of uncertainty as to where I was, I did not distinguish the successive theories of which that uncertainty was composed any more than, when we watch a horse running, we isolate the successive positions of its body as they appear upon a bioscope.

    Swann's Way 2003

  • This tool provides a bioscope to display comprehensive information on natural resources, infrastructure, telecommunications, minerals and energy resources, health services, transport and educational facilities.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • Damning television as only a 'little house-bioscope', Dr Hertzog said that the Opposition wanted it introduced only because a group of them and their friends were out to make a profit.

    reich12 1969

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