silver screen

noun

1
: a motion-picture screen
2

Examples of silver screen in a Sentence

a list of the top 100 stars of the silver screen
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More than a decade after Gone With the Wind’s silver screen debut, O’Connor published a story satirizing the gala’s pageantry. Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025 In her recent book, An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour, actor Nancy Olsen Livingston opined on the personal tribulations that the former silver screen heroine may have endured in her longest starring role as that of Rainier III’s spouse. Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025 Salvaging silver screens: As local movie houses close, residents in smaller U.S. towns are forming nonprofits to save them. Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025 But now in the 21st century, the unnamed narrator mourns, cinema is less about how to see than what to see, as viewers now rely on personal screens much more than on silver screens for their viewing pleasure. The Know, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for silver screen

Word History

First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of silver screen was in 1918

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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/silver%20screen. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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