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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
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: 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
Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 June 2025
Prior to Pearl Harbor, Beckinsale – who is the daughter of late UK TV comedy star Richard Beckinsale but has long made her home in Hollywood – made her big screen breakthrough in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing (1993).
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 14 June 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
However, that film was embraced by audiences and managed to endure at the box office, ultimately ending its big screen run with $155 million domestically and $496 million globally.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 June 2025
Prior to Pearl Harbor, Beckinsale – who is the daughter of late UK TV comedy star Richard Beckinsale but has long made her home in Hollywood – made her big screen breakthrough in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing (1993).
—Caroline Frost, Deadline, 14 June 2025
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“Big-screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big-screen. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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