superscreen
superscreen noun: a very large screen for showing films, sports events, etc.
Noun
superscreen (plural superscreens)
- A very large screen for showing films, sports events, etc.
- That night they went to a superscreen movie.1971, Ronal G Poland, Nancy D Sanford, Adjustment psychology: a human value approach
- Attempting to win back the lost audiences who defected to the 21-inch screen, Hollywood held up the carrot of the superscreens of Cinerama and CinemaScope.1977, John Francis Kreidl, Nicholas Ray
Examples of superscreen in a sentence
- ...a dramatic technical innovation: the curtains on stage rolling back to reveal a superscreen more than twice as large as the standard 12 x 18.1981, Budd Schulberg, Moving pictures, memories of a Hollywood prince:
- ...a motion simulator ride based thematically on the movie RoboCop; a 360-degree cinema experience cum disco; and a superscreen theater.1995, Urban Land Institute, Reinventing real estate:
Forms of superscreen
| plural | superscreens |
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Origin of superscreen
From super- + screen.
Questions about superscreen
- What does superscreen mean?
- Superscreen means a very large screen for showing films, sports events, etc.
- How do you use superscreen in a sentence?
- ...a dramatic technical innovation: the curtains on stage rolling back to reveal a superscreen more than twice as large as the standard 12 x 18.
- What part of speech is superscreen?
- Superscreen is a noun.
- What is the plural of superscreen?
- The plural of superscreen is superscreens.
Words near superscreen in the dictionary
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