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kino

adj · noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkiːnəʊ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -iːnəʊ
  • homophone: keno

1

adj

Meaning 1

Grand, cinematic, especially in regards to cinema or other cultural media.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet

Qualifier: 4chan slang

Examples

  • This game is absolutely kino.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A botanical gum produced by various trees and other plants, particularly bloodwood species of eucalypts (Angophora, Corymbia, Eucalyptus), Butea, and Pterocarpus, used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent in medicine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Especially good or sophisticated cinema.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet, uncountable, usually

Qualifier: 4chan slang

Examples

  • Man, I hate Marvel movies, but Scorsese, now that's some real kino.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Physical contact with another person, touch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: lifestyle, seduction-community, sexuality

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

East Indian tree yielding a resin or extract often used medicinally and in e.g. tanning

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Pterocarpus marsupium

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: tree

6

noun

Meaning 6

a gum obtained from various tropical plants; used as an astringent and in tanning

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gum kino, kino gum

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: gum

History

Etymology

From Russian кино́ (kinó, “movie; cinema”), via Kino-Eye and Dziga Vertov's identification of his film Man with a Movie Camera as "ABSOLUTE KINOGRAPHY".

18th century. Perhaps borrowed from Mandingo cano, or from a language of the East Indies.

Coined by Ross Jeffries, from kinesthesia.