Meaning

2 senses
  1. The broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen)

    ма́лый экра́нmályj ekrán

  2. (broadly)The medium of television.

    Jane Smith made her small-screen debut in 1998, appearing as a patient in a hospital drama.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. This generation has been conditioned to be able to order everything through a small screen.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
broadcast or cable television screen:

Origin

Analogy with big screen.

Analogy with big screen.

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Forms

plural: small screens
Singularsmall screen
Pluralsmall screens

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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