wide-screen

1. 1.

   (motion pictures) projected on a screen with much greater width than height

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Questions about wide-screen

What does wide-screen mean?

wide-screen means "(motion pictures) projected on a screen with much greater width than height".

How many syllables are in wide-screen?

wide-screen has 3 syllables: wi-de--screen. The stress falls on "wi".

Is wide-screen a common word?

wide-screen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.