small screen

English

Etymology

Analogy with big screen.

Noun

small screen

1. (broadcasting) The broadcast or cable television screen, as opposed to the cinema screen (or big screen)
2. (by extension) Television.

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

   • 2018, Ferran Adrià, “What's on Netflix and Amazon this month - July 2018”, in The Guardian:

     "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."

Antonyms

• big screen

Translations

broadcast or cable television screen

Chinese: Mandarin: 電視 / 电视 (zh) (diànshì) Dutch: kleine scherm n Finnish: kuvaruutu (fi) French: petit écran (fr) Greek: μικρή οθόνη (el) f (mikrí othóni) Hebrew: המסך הקטן (he) m (hamasakh hakatan) Italian: piccolo schermo m Macedonian: мал екра́н m (mal ekrán), ма́ли екра́ни m pl (máli ekráni) Polish: mały ekran (pl) m Portuguese: telinha f (Brazil) Romanian: micul ecran (ro) n Russian: ма́лый экра́н (ru) m (mályj ekrán) Spanish: pequeña pantalla f (Spain), pantalla chica f (Argentina, Uruguay)