on-screen

[on-skreen, awn-]

adjective

1. occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life.

   a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.

2. displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television.

   an on-screen course in economics.

adverb

1. in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life.

   On-screen he's a villain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of on-screen¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

And their captivating performances demonstrate the wealth of on-screen talent hidden in all corners of the world.

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And Barker was the on-screen entertainment.

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“But I knew I was going toe-to-toe with the person who I’ve witnessed to have the biggest engine, this massive scale of humanity, on-screen. I was so nervous about the job for that reason.”

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Melugin, 35, has been a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the network since 2021, becoming a regular on-screen presence with his coverage of the undocumented migrants crossing the southern U.S. border.

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When Tartaglia first saw in the script that he would meet his on-screen alter ego, he thought it was an inside joke just put there to make him laugh.

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