English

Etymology

Noun

1. A showing of a movie or theatrical performance in the afternoon.

Alternative spellings

• matinée

Derived terms

• matinee coat
• matinee idol
• matinee jacket

Translations

• German: Matinee
• Interlingua: matinée
• Spanish: matiné

• Theatre matinée, a midday stage performance usually on a Saturday, a Sunday, and perhaps midweek
• Movie theater matinée, a daytime showing of a movie, typically in the afternoon, usually priced less expensively; see movie theater pricing
• A practice used in many U.S. movie theaters in the 1930s through the 1940s on Saturdays: Coming attractions, followed by a short (cartoon or comedy), that was then followed by a newsreel, then an episode of a movie serial, and finally a feature movie. Reproduced for TV in the PBS series Matinee at the Bijou
• "The Dark of the Matinée," a song by Franz Ferdinand
• Matinée, the debut album of Jack Peñate.
• Matinee, a 1993 comedy movie about a small-time movie promoter who releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962; stars John Goodman and Cathy Moriarty
• Matinée, a 1976 Mexican movie directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo
• A software tool for producing machinima