green screen

noun

plural green screens

: a photographic technique in which a subject is filmed in front of a green background so as to allow matte (see matte entry 3 sense 2) compositing of the film with other footage

Show curators are using green screen, augmented reality and visual effects to create an illusion of a near-real event.

—Ruhail Amin

also : the green background

The kids recorded themselves at home, shooting videos in front of a home-made green screen, which Mrs. Hopkins sent home for their families.

—Katie Morse

—often used before another noun

green screen technology

compare blue screen

Examples of green screen in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Elizabeth Banks plays a tiny(-sized) character on The Miniature Wife, which required a lot of solo green screen work. —Sarah Rodman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026

Reads while sitting in front of a green screen barely count. —Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026

Girls got to play meteorologists in front of the CBS Colorado green screen but there were also new installations, like one, where attendees got to extract DNA from a strawberry. —Lauren Whitney, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026

There’s no green screen involved. —Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1983, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for green screen

• agin
• alkene
• allene
• ameen
• amin
• amine
• arene
• athene
• baleen
• beeline
• benzene
• between