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: relating to movies or to the movie industry
She worked on the novel's big-screen adaptation.
Big-screen villains that resemble America's real-world enemies are as old as the movies themselves.—
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: having a large screen
a big-screen television
And in my experience testing big-screen phones …, it really is far more difficult to do anything on them one-handed, including typing.—John Gruber
John Gruber
: the movie medium often as contrasted to television
a story adapted for the big screen
Examples of big-screen in a Sentence
Noun
many actors now take roles for both television and the big screen
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
Play zones were placed near food and beer gardens with big-screen TVs, so parents can keep an eye on the game while their kids stay entertained.
—Asli Pelit, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 June 2025
By the time that first big screen adaptation came to theaters in late 2001, Rowling had published four Potter books and sold over 100 million copies, vaulting her from living off welfare checks to multi-millionaire celebrity status.
—Matt Craig, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
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Adjective
For a three-day period in March on the Newman Scoring Stage on the Fox Studio lot in Century City, a 60-person choir sang choral texture while scenes played out on a big-screen behind it.
—Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 19 June 2025
Play zones were placed near food and beer gardens with big-screen TVs, so parents can keep an eye on the game while their kids stay entertained.
—Asli Pelit, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Noun
Grande got her start on the Nickelodeon series Victorious and iCarly before becoming a breakout pop superstar and earning Oscar and Golden Globe best supporting actress nominations for her role as Glinda in the first part of the double-up big screen adaptation of the musical Wicked.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 June 2025
By the time that first big screen adaptation came to theaters in late 2001, Rowling had published four Potter books and sold over 100 million copies, vaulting her from living off welfare checks to multi-millionaire celebrity status.
—Matt Craig, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
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“Big-screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big-screen. Accessed 25 Jun. 2025.
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