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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.—
Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair2
: 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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PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
The director provided no indication what his next big-screen project would be after scrapping The Critic back in April 2024.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2025
But now just days away from releasing in movie theaters across the country, Gabby herself wants to tell fans of all ages what to expect when Netflix‘s popular preschool series goes big screen.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
This is a big-screen beast with incredible internals that stack up to desktops in the same price range, including a massive 64GB of DDR5 RAM, an ultra-powerful RTX 5070 Ti graphics card, and more.
—PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025
The director provided no indication what his next big-screen project would be after scrapping The Critic back in April 2024.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
The Accountant 2 actor is one of the executive producers on the project that is the second big screen adaptation of Argentine author Manuel Puig’s 1976 novel about the intimate conversations between two Argentine prisoners.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2025
But now just days away from releasing in movie theaters across the country, Gabby herself wants to tell fans of all ages what to expect when Netflix‘s popular preschool series goes big screen.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Big-screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big-screen. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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