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sightscreens

sightscreens is the plural of sightscreen.

Meaning of sightscreen

Noun

sightscreen (plural sightscreens)

  1. A large screen, at each end of a cricket field, coloured to provide visual contrast to the cricket ball, to aid the batsman in seeing its movement through the air.
    • The batsman swung and thwacked it behind him over the sight-screens.1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 24

Questions about sightscreens

What is sightscreens the plural of?
Sightscreens is the plural of sightscreen.

Words near sightscreens in the dictionary

  1. sights for sore eyes
  2. sights in
  3. sights to behold
  4. sightsaw
  5. sightscreen
  6. sightscreens
  7. sightsee
  8. sightseeing
  9. sightseeings
  10. sightseen
  11. sightseer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sightscreens (page history and authors); sightscreen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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