"big screen" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: big screens [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} big screen (plural big screens)
  1. The large viewing surface upon which films are projected in a cinema. Categories (topical): Film Translations (surface): 大銀幕 /大银幕 (dàyínmù) (Chinese Mandarin), storskærm [common-gender] (Danish), grote scherm [neuter] (Dutch), laajakangas (Finnish), grand écran [masculine] (French), Kinoleinwand [feminine] (German), Filmleinwand [feminine] (German), μεγάλη οθόνη (megáli othóni) [feminine] (Greek), המסך הגדול (hamasakh hagadol) [masculine] (Hebrew), grande schermo [masculine] (Italian), wielki ekran [masculine] (Polish), telão [masculine] (Portuguese), telona [feminine] (Portuguese), большо́й экра́н (bolʹšój ekrán) [masculine] (Russian), gran pantalla [feminine] (Spanish), pantalla grande [feminine] (Spanish), bioduk [common-gender] (Swedish), filmduk (Swedish), filmskärm (Swedish), bioskärm [common-gender] (Swedish), büyük ekran (Turkish)
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  2. (idiomatic, by extension) movies, or that which is related to movies or cinema. Tags: broadly, idiomatic
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: silver screen

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "surface",
      "word": "filmduk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "surface",
      "word": "filmskärm"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "surface",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "bioskärm"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "surface",
      "word": "büyük ekran"
    }
  ],
  "word": "big screen"
}

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