silver screen

silver screen
noun
1. the film industry
• Hypernyms: ↑film, ↑cinema, ↑celluloid
2. a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
• Syn: ↑screen, ↑projection screen
• Derivationally related forms: ↑screen (for: ↑screen)
• Hypernyms: ↑surface
• Hyponyms: ↑wide screen

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noun
1. : a motion-picture screen
2. : motion pictures

my favorite heroine of the silver screen — Richard Bissell

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1. motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.
2. a special screen on which motion pictures are projected.
[1915-20]

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silver screen noun
1. The cinema screen
2. (with the) the film industry (informal)
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Main Entry: ↑silver

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silver screen,
1. a screen with a silverlike coating on which motion pictures are shown.
2. motion pictures: »

Yet if he orated on the silver screen he would be faintly ridiculous (Maclean's).

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noun
the silver screen
old-fashioned
1 : a screen in a movie theater

one of the greatest films ever to hit the silver screen [=one of the greatest films ever shown in movie theaters]

2 : movies in general

stars of the silver screen [=movie stars]

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the ˌsilver ˈscreen [silver screen] noun singular (old-fashioned)
the film/movie industry

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stars of the silver screen

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The book is being adapted for the silver screen.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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