1. an early type of movie projector or cinema
Usage: historical
2. a movie theater or cinema
Usage: chiefly South African

Examples

• The old bioscope showed silent films to amazed audiences.
• Edison’s bioscope was one of the first motion picture devices.
• We went to the bioscope to watch the latest film.
• The bioscope on Main Street has been showing movies since 1920.
• In South Africa, many people still call the cinema a bioscope.
• The vintage bioscope required manual cranking to project images.