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View synonyms for silver screen

silver screen

noun

  1. motion pictures; the motion-picture industry:

    a star of the silver screen.

  2. a special screen on which motion pictures are projected.


silver screen

noun

  1. films collectively or the film industry
  2. the screen onto which films are projected


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Word History and Origins

Origin of silver screen1

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

Her name was Courtney, and she was a fashion editor for magazines like Photoplay, Screenland, Silver Screen.

On Christmas weekend, a North Korean tyrant has decided what American teenagers will see on the silver screen.

The compilation also brought the Nazi-riffic Apt Pupil and leach-tastic The Body (aka Stand By Me) to the silver screen.

It just, recently, has stopped being scripted on the silver screen.

His pulpy brand of crime fiction will live on not only in paperback form, but also on the silver screen.

A small movie projector began to purr; a bright rectangle was thrown upon the silver screen and then, Lee stirred.

Acknowledged by producers, directors, film stars and the public alike as an authority on the silver screen art.

Across its silver screen there passed a long procession of pictures.

And on a far wall, facing them all, hung a silver screen, fifty feet square.

What was unrolled on the silver screen were chapters from Lee's own life.

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