big screen
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big screen

noun

Definition of BIG SCREEN

: the motion picture medium often as contrasted to television <a story adapted for the big screen>
big–screen adjective

Examples of BIG SCREEN

  1. <many a television star has failed to make it on the big screen>

First Known Use of BIG SCREEN

1969

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