movement

/mˈuvmənt/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. a change of position that does not entail a change of location
   “the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise”
2. the act of changing location from one place to another
   “police controlled the motion of the crowd”
3. a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something
4. a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals
   “he was a charter member of the movement”
5. a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata
   “the second movement is slow and melodic”
6. a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
   “he supported populist campaigns”
7. an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object
   “the cinema relies on apparent motion”
8. a euphemism for defecation
   “he had a bowel movement”
9. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
   “not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book”
10. the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock)
    “it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement”
11. the act of changing the location of something
    “the movement of cargo onto the vessel”

Synonyms for movement

• motion
• move
• motility
• social movement
• front
• campaign
• cause
• crusade
• drive
• effort
• apparent motion
• apparent movement
• bowel movement
• bm
• drift
• trend

Words that rhyme with movement

• improvement