Definitions for movement

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movement move·ment

Spelling: [moov-muh nt]

IPA: /ˈmuv mənt/

Movement is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in movement (eemmnotv).

Definitions for movement

noun

1. the act, process, or result of moving.
2. a particular manner or style of moving.
3. Usually, movements. actions or activities, as of a person or a body of persons.
4. Military, Naval. a change of position or location of troops or ships.
5. abundance of events or incidents.
6. rapid progress of events.
7. the progress of events, as in a narrative or drama.
8. Fine Arts. the suggestion of motion in a work of art, either by represented gesture in figurative painting or sculpture or by the relationship of structural elements in a design or composition.
9. a progressive development of ideas toward a particular conclusion:
10. a series of actions or activities intended or tending toward a particular end:
11. the course, tendency, or trend of affairs in a particular field.
12. a diffusely organized or heterogeneous group of people or organizations tending toward or favoring a generalized common goal:
13. the price change in the market of some commodity or security:
14. bowel movement.
15. the working parts or a distinct portion of the working parts of a mechanism, as of a watch.
16. Music. a principal division or section of a sonata, symphony, or the like. motion; rhythm; time; tempo.
17. Prosody. rhythmical structure or character.

Origin of movement

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French; see move, -ment

Examples for movement

Though the bar closed soon after, a movement had been sparked, and when it reopened in 1990, history was revived.

There was a movement in her throat as though she swallowed something hard.

Mr. Gladstone may be regarded as the pioneer of the movement.

But Jeff Rankin swept all argument away with a movement of his big paws.

Even in the parts of the movement he does cover, some people and efforts are missing.

And I would like for this generation to define its own movement.

It happened and it was a group of maybe 200 in a movement that has drawn tens of thousands in New York alone.

DeCrow would come to lead a movement against this practice, suing the Hotel Syracuse in 1969 and calling for protests and sit-ins.

So vigorous was her movement that Cassidy's clasp was thrown off the wrist.

Nevertheless, not one movement of young Ried escaped the notice of some of them.