silver screen

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noun

motion pictures; the motion-picture industry: a star of the silver screen.

a special screen on which motion pictures are projected.

Nearby words

silver point, silver poplar, silver protein, silver protein stain, silver salmon, silver screen, silver service, silver spoon, silver spring, silver standard, silver star

Origin of silver screen

First recorded in 1915–20

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Examples from the Web for silver screen

From a crackhead to Sam Kinison to even Jon Stewart, Marlow Stern on the best bad apples in the bunch of silver-screen teachers.
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British Dictionary definitions for silver screen

silver screen

noun the silver screen informal

films collectively or the film industry

the screen onto which films are projected

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