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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 motion-picture medium often as contrasted to television
a story adapted for the big screen
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Examples of big-screen in a Sentence
Noun
many actors now take roles for both television and the big screen
Recent Examples on the WebElliott Smith and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 23 May 2024
That will be preceded by a big-screen release in select theaters starting Oct. 1.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2024
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Adjective
Hardy’s been working non-stop since his big-screen debut in Black Hawk Down (2001), shifting from movies to TV to the stage along the way.
—Elliott Smith and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 23 May 2024
That will be preceded by a big-screen release in select theaters starting Oct. 1.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2024
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“Big-screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big-screen. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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