Get to know Matinee better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like theatrical or representation.
Matinee meaning
- A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon.
- A woman's dress to be worn in the morning or before dinner.
Synonyms of Matinee
Using Matinee
- The main meaning on this page is: A showing of a movie, sporting event, or theatrical performance in the morning or afternoon. | A woman's dress to be worn in the morning or before dinner.
- Useful related words include: theatrical performance, theatrical, representation, histrionics.
- In the example corpus, matinee often appears in combinations such as: sunday matinee, the matinee, matinee at.
Context around Matinee
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Matinee
- In this selection, "matinee" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sunday, movie, former, idol, show and game stand out and add context to how "matinee" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include matinee at the and a sunday matinee at 3pm. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "matinee" sits close to words such as abate, aeronautics and affidavits, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with matinee
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Movie Matinee ‘Sully’: 1:30 p.m., Heritage Center. (9 words)
Movie Matinee, Pool: 1:30 p.m., Heritage Center. (9 words)
Puck drop is 1 p.m. for this matinee climax. (10 words)
Palace Theater’s Sunday matinee at 5 p.m. ended when it was dark, so most (or many) young people of my generation, I believe, experienced their first serious interaction with the opposite sex at and after the Palace Sunday matinee. (41 words)
Notre Dame stormed into Galen Center and put on a show for all the stars who came out among the 7,894 fans to watch the matinee, big names who included Snoop Dogg, Michael B. Jordan and Jason Sudeikis. (39 words)
LW Theatres, Andrew Lloyd Webber's group of seven West End theatres including the London Palladium, said it planned to make an announcement before its shows but had no plans to change the times of its matinee performances. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Palace Theater’s Sunday matinee at 5 p.m. ended when it was dark, so most (or many) young people of my generation, I believe, experienced their first serious interaction with the opposite sex at and after the Palace Sunday matinee.
Curtain is at 7 p.m. on April 14-15 plus there will be a matinee show at 2 p.m. on April 15.
Doncic finished with 34 points in the matinee game, but missed an open floater to tie the game late.
Former matinee idol Brendan Fraser, with the lead actor win for his wrenching turn as a morbidly obese man in “The Whale,” reached the climax of a his own comeback story.
Heather Cuzzi, a volunteer backstage manager for Maine State Ballet’s “Nutcracker,” instructs dancers before wardrobe and makeup for Friday’s matinee.
He was always possessed of a movie star charisma, not to mention a pronounced chin and matinee idol good looks.
LW Theatres, Andrew Lloyd Webber's group of seven West End theatres including the London Palladium, said it planned to make an announcement before its shows but had no plans to change the times of its matinee performances.
Matinee at the Museum: 1 p.m. Sunday, Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder.
Matinee at the Musicals is returning to the town on Sunday, February 26 for the fourth time since its launch in 2018, raising funds for the Beatson Cancer Charity and Rainbow Valley Cancer Charity.
Movie Matinee ‘Sully’: 1:30 p.m., Heritage Center.
Performances run Thursdays at 8pm, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm and 8pm, and a Sunday matinee at 3pm.
Performances, which include evening dinner theatres and matinee brunches, run from March 9 through to April 2 at the Tin Roof Event Centre.
Puck drop is 1 p.m. for this matinee climax.
The decision follows actress Jodie Comer halting a matinee performance of Prima Facie on Broadway earlier this month after experiencing breathing difficulties caused by poor air quality in New York City.
The matinee showing includes a gourmet sandwich box meal with sandwich, pasta salad, chips, dessert and beverage.
They will host the Spartans at 7 p.m. CST on Black Friday, and will play a 1 p.m. matinee with the Spartans on Sunday, Nov. 26.
Dick Whittington runs every night at 7-15pm until Saturday, when there's a matinee at 2-15pm.
Movie Matinee, Pool: 1:30 p.m., Heritage Center.
Next up for the Wranglers is a Sunday matinee rematch with the Silver Knights.
Notre Dame stormed into Galen Center and put on a show for all the stars who came out among the 7,894 fans to watch the matinee, big names who included Snoop Dogg, Michael B. Jordan and Jason Sudeikis.
Common combinations with matinee
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sunday matinee 11×
- the matinee 10×
- matinee at 9×
- matinee performance 6×
- saturday matinee 5×
- matinee on 4×
- be matinee 3×
- matinee show 3×
- matinee game 3×
- matinee idol 3×