See silver screen on Wiktionary
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"sense": "by extension, movies",
"word": "valkokangas"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "septième art"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "grand écran"
},
{
"alt": "銀幕",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"lang_code": "ko",
"roman": "eunmak",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"word": "은막"
},
{
"code": "mr",
"lang": "Marathi",
"lang_code": "mr",
"roman": "ruperī paḍdā",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "रुपेरी पडदा"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "srebrny ekran"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "duży ekran"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "wielki ekran"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gran pantalla"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "séptimo arte"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "vita duken"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"lang_code": "ta",
"roman": "tirai",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"word": "திரை"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "by extension, movies",
"word": "màn bạc"
}
],
"word": "silver screen"
}
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