silver screen
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈsɪlvər skriːn/
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- The Monkey Goes West film series is part of this Chinese dream realized on the Shaw Brothers' silver screen.
Examples
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Whatever the reason, I find baseball far more entertaining and exciting on the silver screen.
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The last movie she'd seen on the silver screen was Schindler's List.
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You are my favorite star of the silver screen.
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That I'd end up on the silver screen.
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It was my last appearance on the silver screen.
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May I say that I've always thought yours to be one of the most beautiful faces ever to grace the silver screen.
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Some of his greatest successes, however, have been in bringing Marvel comics to the silver screen.
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But Millar sees endless potential in the stories and characters they can tell on the silver screen.
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Indies and films from around the world are the focus of this long-standing celebration of the silver screen.
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Many classic films from the 1950s continue to influence the silver screen today.
Synonyms
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3.0
A cinema where films are shown to many people
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2.4
People and companies that make, sell, and show movies
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People and companies that make movies
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A name for Hollywood and the movie world as a glamorous place
The American film industry, especially studios and stars in Los Angeles
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from 'silver' + 'screen' — a screen that is silvered or pale metallic used for projecting motion pictures — so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer this literal sense. The secondary metonymic use for 'the movies' or 'film industry' follows predictably from that literal image, so the expression is transparent overall.
Etymology
Silver screen came from early movie theaters where the cloth screen was covered with a thin, shiny metal like silver so the picture from the projector was brighter. Because actors appeared on that bright surface, saying someone was 'on the silver screen' came to mean 'the film world' or 'cinema'.