"big screen" meaning in All languages combined

See big screen on Wiktionary

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 (Chinese Mandarin), 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)
    Sense id: en-big_screen-en-noun-4Nvilm97 Disambiguation of Film: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54 Disambiguation of 'surface': 100 0
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) movies, or that which is related to movies or cinema. Tags: broadly, idiomatic Categories (topical): Film
    Sense id: en-big_screen-en-noun-LX2NaHJ~ Disambiguation of Film: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 46 54 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: silver screen

Inflected forms

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