small screen

noun

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Free to all players in the Home Designer Inventory, the music player will have a small screen showing unique cover art for each song. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025 France’s Movie Car Central Museum is working with Bonhams|Cars to auction off a collection of 50 two- and four-wheel vehicles from the big and small screen later this month. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025 Watch it on a small screen and much of the magic evaporates, but watch it in a pitch-black theater, as rapt audiences all over the U.S. once did, and the effect is terrifying. Diana Hubbell, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025 The actor, who plays the dashing Prince Fiyero in Wicked, has commanded the stage, small screen, and now Hollywood blockbusters—all while maintaining the same approachable charm that first drew audiences to him in the early days of his 30-year career. Olivia-Anne Cleary, Time, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for small screen

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First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of small screen was in 1944

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“Small screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/small%20screen. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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