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单词 nickelodeon
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nickelodeonn.

Brit. /ˌnɪkəˈləʊdɪən/, /ˌnɪklˈəʊdɪən/, U.S. /ˌnɪkəˈloʊdiən/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: nickel n., Odeon n.
Etymology: < nickel n. (compare sense 2 s.v.) + Odeon n., after melodeon n.1
Chiefly North American.
1. Originally U.S. A theatre or cinema, or (occasionally) other place of entertainment, with an admission fee of one nickel. Now historical.The use of the word in connection with film rather than theatre is frequently associated with Harry Davis and John Harris of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who opened a cinema with this name there in 1905.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre
little theatre1569
private house1604
private playhouse1609
amphitheatre1611
private theatre1633
droll-house1705
summer theatre1761
show shop1772
national theatre1816
minor1821
legitimate1826
patent house1827
patent theatre1836
showboat1839
music theatre1849
penny-gaff1856
saloon theatre1864
leg shop1871
people's theatre1873
nickelodeon1888
repertory theatre1891
studio theatre1891
legit1897
blood-tub1906
rep1906
small-timer1910
grind house1923
theatrette1927
indie1928
vaude1933
straw hat1935
theatre-in-the-round1948
straw-hatter1949
bughouse1952
theatre-restaurant1958
dinner theatre1959
theatre club1961
black box1971
pub theatre1971
performance space1972
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > types of
nickelodeon1888
home theatre1914
screening room1918
art house1925
indie1928
drive-in1931
ozoner1948
bughouse1952
hardtop1955
cinematheque1965
multi1970
skin house1970
stroke house1971
multiscreen1974
society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > amusement arcade
amusement arcade1901
nickelodeon1927
1888 Boston Sunday Globe 16 Sept. 10/4 On Oct. 1 William Austin's new Nickelodeon, a nickel-plated museum, will be opened to the public... Colonel Austin is preparing what is styled a perfect palace of beauty, in gloss white, nickel and gold.
1888 Boston Evening Transcript 1 Oct. 5/7 (advt.) Especially Designed For Ladies and Children. Wm. Austin & Co.'s Nickelodeon... Admission Only Five Cents.
1908 Moving Picture World 16 May 433/1 A visit to more than two hundred nickelodeons failed to detect one indecent or immoral feature.
1921 Ladies' Home Jrnl. June 79/1 It is this class which first patronized the old nickelodeon, and undoubtedly it imposed its tastes and its traditions on the picture makers.
1927 F. Hurst Song of Life 292 The nickelodeons and the gewgaw shops of the most terrific city in the world.
1955 G. Greene Quiet Amer. 188 It must have belonged to the same era as the nickelodeon.
1987 D. Clandfield Canad. Film i. 1 John Griffin's cut-price Theatorium in Toronto, the first of the Canadian Nickelodeons.
2. A jukebox. Also: a player piano (= pianola n.).
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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > juke-box
nickelodeon1938
piccolo1938
1938 Florida Rev. Spring 25/1 The requisites of a place entitling it to the name jook are..presence of the nickelodeon, and..of the dance-floor.
1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle 68 A dance floor and a nickelodeon piano.
1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 15 Jan. 88/3 A nickelodeon at the end of the street emits a tinny piano tinkle.
1950 S. Weiss & B. Baum Music! Music! Music! (song lyrics) Put another nickel in In the nickelodeon All I want is having you And music, music, music.
1957 J. Frame Owls do Cry 76 Putting money in the nickelodeon.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 18 Aug. 8/2 The former shepherd boy who used a $4,000 nickelodeon as a springboard to the top.
1988 Holiday Which? May 152/3 A nickelodeon belts out jolly music.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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