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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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Jordana Comiter, People.com, 13 July 2025
This is a potent big-screen portable for creatives, with a juicy 24GB of system memory and a gorgeous Liquid Retina display that's bright and colorful.
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Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
The movie marks the first big screen role in five years for Martelli, who also enjoyed acclaim for her feature directorial debut 1976 in 2022.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 July 2025
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Adjective
The 2025 film will be Gardner's Superman big-screen debut, but he was first played on-screen by Matthew Settle in the 1997 television pilot Justice League of America.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 13 July 2025
This is a potent big-screen portable for creatives, with a juicy 24GB of system memory and a gorgeous Liquid Retina display that's bright and colorful.
—PC Magazine, 11 July 2025
Noun
Space 11 is following in the steps of film producers like Imax, which has developed proprietary cameras to shoot its own big screen documentaries in outer space over the decades.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
The movie marks the first big screen role in five years for Martelli, who also enjoyed acclaim for her feature directorial debut 1976 in 2022.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 July 2025
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“Big-screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/big-screen. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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