noun
Meaning 1
Physical motion between points in space.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: motion
Antonyms: stasis
Standard Lemma guide
movement
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
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
noun
Meaning 4
A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- social movement
- The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A large division of a larger composition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
Examples
- Beethoven's movements
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Melodic progression, accentual character, tempo or pace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
Examples
- Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- The movement on his cutter was devastating.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: bridge, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
Ellipsis of bowel movement (“an act of emptying the bowels”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
the act of changing location from one place to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- police controlled the motion of the crowd
- the movement of people from the farms to the cities
- his move put him directly in my path
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: motion, move
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
Narrower terms: approach, approaching, coming, progress, progression, procession, advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, locomotion, travel, lurch, lunge, traveling, travelling, pursuit, chase, pursual, following, rise, ascent, ascension, ascending, descent, swing, swinging, vacillation, return, slide, glide, coast, slippage, flow, stream, crawl, speed, speeding, hurrying, translation, displacement, shift, shifting, haste, hurry, rush, rushing, maneuver, manoeuvre, play, migration
noun
Meaning 13
the act of changing the location of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the movement of cargo onto the vessel
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
Narrower terms: displacement, deracination, transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance, insertion, introduction, intromission, lowering, letting down, transplant, transplantation, transplanting, troop movement
noun
Meaning 14
a change of position that does not entail a change of location
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise
- movement is a sign of life
- an impatient move of his hand
- gastrointestinal motility
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: motion, move, motility
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
Narrower terms: abduction, adduction, agitation, body English, circumduction, disturbance, fetal movement, foetal movement, flit, dart, gesture, headshake, headshaking, inclination, inclining, inversion, eversion, everting, upending, jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade, kick, kicking, kneel, kneeling, lurch, pitch, pitching, eye movement, opening, prostration, reach, reaching, stretch, reciprocation, reclining, retraction, retroflection, retroflexion, rotation, rotary motion, shutting, closing, sitting, posing, snap, squat, squatting, sweep, toss, vibration, quiver, quivering, wave, waver, flutter, flicker, standing, straddle, span, stroke, wiggle, wriggle, squirm, eurythmy, eurhythmy, eurythmics, eurhythmics
noun
Meaning 15
a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he supported populist campaigns
- they worked in the cause of world peace
- the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant
- the movement to end slavery
- contributed to the war effort
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: venture
Narrower terms: advertising campaign, ad campaign, ad blitz, anti-war movement, charm campaign, consumerism, campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign, fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive, fund-raising effort, feminist movement, feminism, women's liberation movement, women's lib, gay liberation movement, gay lib, lost cause, reform, war, youth movement, youth crusade
noun
Meaning 16
the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: action, action mechanism
noun
Meaning 17
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
- a broad movement of the electorate to the right
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: drift, trend
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inclination, disposition, tendency
Narrower terms: evolutionary trend, gravitation
noun
Meaning 18
a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the second movement is slow and melodic
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
Narrower terms: intermezzo, scherzo
noun
Meaning 19
a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: motion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
Narrower terms: crustal movement, tectonic movement, approach, approaching, passing, passage, deflection, deflexion, bending, bend, change of location, travel, wave, undulation, jitter, periodic motion, periodic movement, heave, recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash, kick, seek, squeeze, wring, throw, stroke, cam stroke, turning, turn, twist, wrench, moving ridge, wobble, whirl, commotion, Brownian movement, Brownian motion, pedesis
noun
Meaning 20
a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was a charter member of the movement
- politicians have to respect a mass movement
- he led the national liberation front
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: social movement, front
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: social group
Narrower terms: Free French, Fighting French, artistic movement, art movement, Boy Scouts, Civil Rights movement, common front, cultural movement, ecumenism, oecumenism, falun gong, political movement, reform movement, religious movement, Zionism, Zionist movement
noun
Meaning 21
an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the cinema relies on apparent motion
- the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: apparent motion, motion, apparent movement
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: optical illusion
noun
Meaning 22
a euphemism for defecation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he had a bowel movement
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bowel movement, bm
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: defecation, laxation, shitting
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh1- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh1éyetider. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin movēre Old French movoir Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -ment Old French movementbor. Middle English mevement English movement From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring. Morphologically move + -ment.
Across languages
Translations
238 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: lëvizje — physical motion
- Southern Altai: кыймык (kïymïk) — physical motion
- Antillean Creole: mouvman — physical motion
- Arabic: حَرَكَة (ḥaraka) — physical motion
- Armenian: շարժում (šaržum) — physical motion
- Armenian: շարժ (šarž) — physical motion
- Asturian: movimientu — physical motion
- Azerbaijani: hərəkət — physical motion
- Bashkir: хәрәкәт (xərəkət) — physical motion
- Basque: mugimendu — physical motion
- Belarusian: рух (rux) — physical motion
- Bengali: গতি (gotoi) — physical motion
- Breton: luskad — physical motion
- Bulgarian: движе́ние (dvižénie) — physical motion
- Burmese: အသွားအလာ (a.swa:a.la) — physical motion
- Catalan: moviment — physical motion
- Chinese Cantonese: 運動 /运动 — physical motion
- Eastern Min Chinese: 運動 /运动 (ông-dông) — physical motion
- Chinese: 運動 /运动 (zh-min-nan) — physical motion
- Chinese Mandarin: 運動 /运动 (yùndòng) — physical motion
- Wu Chinese: 運動 /运动 (6yun-don) — physical motion
- Crimean Tatar: areket — physical motion
- Czech: pohyb — physical motion
- Czech: hnutí — physical motion
- Danish: bevægelse — physical motion
- Dutch: beweging — physical motion
- Dutch: verroering — physical motion
- Esperanto: movo — physical motion
- Esperanto: moviĝo — physical motion
- Estonian: liikumine — physical motion
- Finnish: liike — physical motion
- Finnish: liikahdus — physical motion
- Finnish: kulku — physical motion
- French: mouvement — physical motion
- Friulian: moviment — physical motion
- Galician: movemento — physical motion
- Georgian: მოძრაობა (moʒraoba) — physical motion
- German: Bewegung — physical motion
- Greek: κίνηση (kínisi) — physical motion
- Ancient Greek: κίνησις (kínēsis) — physical motion
- Haitian Creole: mouvman — physical motion
- Hebrew: תְּנוּעָה (tnu'á) — physical motion
- Hebrew: תְּזוּזָה (t'zuzá) — physical motion
- Hebrew: מָנוֹד (manód) — physical motion
- Hebrew: נִיד (níd) — physical motion
- Hebrew: מהלך (mahalákh) — physical motion
- Hindi: हरकत (harkat) — physical motion
- Hindi: गति (gati) — physical motion
- Hindi: आंदोलन (āndolan) — physical motion
- Hungarian: mozgás — physical motion
- Icelandic: hreyfing — physical motion
- Indonesian: gerakan — physical motion
- Indonesian: pergerakan — physical motion
- Ingrian: liikkumiin — physical motion
- Irish: corraí — physical motion
- Italian: movimento — physical motion
- Japanese: 運動 (undō) — physical motion
- Japanese: 動き (ugoki) — physical motion
- Javanese: obahan — physical motion
- Kazakh: қозғалыс (qozğalys) — physical motion
- Kazakh: қимыл (qimyl) — physical motion
- Khmer: ចលនា (caʼlaʼnaa) — physical motion
- Khmer: ដំណើរ (dɑmnaə) — physical motion
- Korean: 운동 (undong) — physical motion
- Korean: 움직임 (umjigim) — physical motion
- Central Kurdish: جوولانەوە (cûlanewe) — physical motion
- Central Kurdish: بزووتنەوە (bzûtnewe) — physical motion
- Central Kurdish: حەرەکەت (ḧereket) — physical motion
- Northern Kurdish: livîn — physical motion
- Kyrgyz: аракет (araket) — physical motion
- Kyrgyz: кыймыл (kıymıl) — physical motion
- Lao: ການເຄື່ອນໄຫວ (kān khư̄an h) — physical motion
- Latin: mōtus — physical motion
- Latvian: kustība — physical motion
- Lithuanian: judėjimas — physical motion
- Macedonian: движење (dviženje) — physical motion
- Malay: pergerakan — physical motion
- Malayalam: അനക്കം (anakkaṁ) — physical motion
- Malayalam: ചലനം (calanaṁ) — physical motion
- Māori: keuenga — physical motion
- Māori: koringa — physical motion
- Māori: korikoringa — physical motion
- Marathi: हालचाल (hālċāl) — physical motion
- Mongolian: хөдөлгөөн (xödölgöön) — physical motion
- Nahuatl: ollin — physical motion
- Norwegian Bokmål: bevegelse — physical motion
- Norwegian Bokmål: flytting — physical motion
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bevegelse — physical motion
- Norwegian Nynorsk: flytting — physical motion
- Occitan: movement — physical motion
- Old English: styring — physical motion
- Pashto: حرکت (harakát) — physical motion
- Iranian Persian: حَرَکَت (harakat) — physical motion
- Iranian Persian: جُنْبِش (jonbeš) — physical motion
- Iranian Persian: رَوِش (raveš) — physical motion
- Iranian Persian: نَهْضَت (nahzat) — physical motion
- Plautdietsch: Bewäajunk — physical motion
- Polish: ruch — physical motion
- Portuguese: movimento — physical motion
- Romanian: mișcare — physical motion
- Romansh: moviment — physical motion
- Romansh: movimaint — physical motion
- Romansh: muvimaint — physical motion
- Russian: движе́ние (dvižénije) — physical motion
- Sanskrit: गति (gati) — physical motion
- Sardinian: moghimentu — physical motion
- Sardinian: moimentu — physical motion
- Sardinian: movimentu — physical motion
- Sardinian: muimentu — physical motion
- Scots: muvement — physical motion
- Scottish Gaelic: gluasad — physical motion
- Serbo-Croatian: кре́та̄ње — physical motion
- Serbo-Croatian: ги́ба̄ње — physical motion
- Serbo-Croatian: krétānje — physical motion
- Serbo-Croatian: gíbānje — physical motion
- Sicilian: movimentu — physical motion
- Sicilian: muvumentu — physical motion
- Sicilian: muvimentu — physical motion
- Slovak: pohyb — physical motion
- Slovak: hnutie — physical motion
- Slovene: gibanje — physical motion
- Slovene: premikanje — physical motion
- Slovene: premik — physical motion
- Spanish: movimiento — physical motion
- Spanish: muebda (diused) — physical motion
- Spanish: movición — physical motion
- Swahili: peleka — physical motion
- Swedish: rörelse — physical motion
- Tajik: ҳаракат (harakat) — physical motion
- Tajik: ҷунбиш (junbiš) — physical motion
- Tajik: наҳзат (nahzat) — physical motion
- Tamil: நகர்வு (nakarvu) — physical motion
- Tamil: அசைவு (acaivu) — physical motion
- Tatar: хәрәкәт (xäräkät) — physical motion
- Thai: ความเคลื่อนไหว (kwaam-klʉ̂ʉan-wǎi) — physical motion
- Turkish: hareket — physical motion
- Ottoman Turkish: حركت (hareket) — physical motion
- Turkmen: hereket — physical motion
- Ukrainian: рух (rux) — physical motion
- Ukrainian: пересува́ння (peresuvánnja) — physical motion
- Ukrainian: перемі́щення (peremíščennja) — physical motion
- Urdu: حَرَکَت (harakat) — physical motion
- Urdu: جُن٘بِش (jumbiś) — physical motion
- Urdu: تَحْرِیک (tahrīk) — physical motion
- Uyghur: ھەرىكەت (heriket) — physical motion
- Uzbek: harakat — physical motion
- Vietnamese: cử động — physical motion
- Walloon: mouvmint — physical motion
- Yiddish: באַוועגונג (bavegung) — physical motion
- Zazaki: hereket — physical motion
- Zazaki: luyayış — physical motion
- Dutch: uurwerk — horology: device that cuts time in equal portions
- Dutch: beweging — impression of motion
- Scottish Gaelic: gluasad — impression of motion
- Antillean Creole: mouvman — trend in various fields or social categories
- Arabic: حَرَكَة (ḥaraka) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Armenian: շարժում (šaržum) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Azerbaijani: hərəkat — trend in various fields or social categories
- Bashkir: хәрәкәт (xərəkət) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Bulgarian: движе́ние (dvižénie) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Catalan: moviment — trend in various fields or social categories
- Chinese Mandarin: 運動 /运动 (yùndòng) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Czech: hnutí — trend in various fields or social categories
- Danish: bevægelse — trend in various fields or social categories
- Dutch: beweging — trend in various fields or social categories
- Esperanto: movado — trend in various fields or social categories
- Finnish: liike — trend in various fields or social categories
- French: mouvement — trend in various fields or social categories
- Galician: movemento — trend in various fields or social categories
- Georgian: მოძრაობა (moʒraoba) — trend in various fields or social categories
- German: Bewegung — trend in various fields or social categories
- Greek: κίνημα (kínima) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Haitian Creole: mouvman — trend in various fields or social categories
- Hebrew: תְּנוּעָה (tnu'á) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Hindi: आंदोलन (āndolan) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Hungarian: mozgalom — trend in various fields or social categories
- Italian: movimento — trend in various fields or social categories
- Japanese: 運動 (undō) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Javanese: obahan — trend in various fields or social categories
- Kannada: ಚಳುವಳಿ (caḷuvaḷi) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Korean: 운동 (undong) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Latin: mōtus — trend in various fields or social categories
- Latvian: kustība — trend in various fields or social categories
- Lithuanian: sąjūdis — trend in various fields or social categories
- Malayalam: പ്രസ്ഥാനം (prasthānaṁ) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Māori: rangatohe — trend in various fields or social categories
- Marathi: चळवळ (ċaḷvaḷ) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Norwegian Bokmål: bevegelse — trend in various fields or social categories
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bevegelse — trend in various fields or social categories
- Occitan: movement — trend in various fields or social categories
- Polish: ruch — trend in various fields or social categories
- Portuguese: movimento — trend in various fields or social categories
- Romanian: mișcare — trend in various fields or social categories
- Russian: движе́ние (dvižénije) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Scots: muvement — trend in various fields or social categories
- Scottish Gaelic: gluasad — trend in various fields or social categories
- Serbo-Croatian: по̏кре̄т — trend in various fields or social categories
- Serbo-Croatian: pȍkrēt — trend in various fields or social categories
- Slovak: hnutie — trend in various fields or social categories
- Slovene: gibanje — trend in various fields or social categories
- Spanish: movimiento — trend in various fields or social categories
- Swahili: harakati — trend in various fields or social categories
- Swedish: rörelse — trend in various fields or social categories
- Tamil: இயக்கம் (iyakkam) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Thai: การเคลื่อนไหว (gaan-klʉ̂ʉan-wǎi) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Ukrainian: рух (rux) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Vietnamese: phong trào — trend in various fields or social categories
- Yiddish: באַוועגונג (bavegung) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Yiddish: ריכטונג (rikhtung) — trend in various fields or social categories
- Zazaki: hereket — trend in various fields or social categories
- Antillean Creole: mouvman — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Chinese Mandarin: 樂章 /乐章 (yuèzhāng) — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Czech: věta — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Danish: sats — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Dutch: deel — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Faroese: satsur — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Finnish: osa — music: division of a larger musical composition
- French: mouvement — music: division of a larger musical composition
- German: Satz — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Greek: μέρος (méros) — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Hungarian: tétel — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Italian: movimento — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Japanese: 楽章 (gakushō) — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Korean: 악장 (akjang) — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Māori: tūārere — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Norwegian Bokmål: sats — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sats — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Portuguese: andamento — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Portuguese: movimento — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Romanian: mișcare — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Russian: часть (častʹ) — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Serbo-Croatian: ста̏вак — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Serbo-Croatian: stȁvak — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Slovene: stavek — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Spanish: movimiento — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Swedish: sats — music: division of a larger musical composition
- Swedish: defekation — an act of emptying the bowels
- Swedish: öppning — an act of emptying the bowels
Real reading context