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small screen

small screen noun: the broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen).

Noun

small screen

  1. The broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen)
  2. (broadly) The medium of television.
    • Jane Smith made her small-screen debut in 1998, appearing as a patient in a hospital drama.
    • "Marvel’s attempts to conquer TV as comprehensively as it has done cinema continues with what might be its most distinctive small-screen effort yet."2018, Ferran Adrià, “What's on Netflix and Amazon this month - July 2018”, in The Guardian

small screen meaning in Tamil and Telugu

small screen in Tamil

broadcast or cable television screen
சின்னத்திரை ciṉṉattirai

small screen in Telugu

small screen
బుల్లితెర bullitera

Antonyms of small screen

Origin of small screen

Analogy with big screen.

Questions about small screen

What does small screen mean?
Small screen means the broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen).
What is small screen in Tamil?
Small screen in Tamil is சின்னத்திரை (ciṉṉattirai). See Small screen meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is small screen?
Small screen is a noun.

Words near small screen in the dictionary

  1. small saphenous vein
  2. small saphenous veins
  3. small scale
  4. Small Scale Integration
  5. small science
  6. small screen
  7. small seal script
  8. small shellies
  9. small skipper
  10. small skippers
  11. small sky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: small screen (page history and authors); బుల్లితెర (Telugu) (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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