on-screen

[ on-skreen, awn- ]

adjective

1. occurring within a motion picture or television show or in an actor's professional life:

   a raucous on-screen personality that was at odds with his quiet private life.

2. displayed on a television screen; supplied by means of television:

   an on-screen course in economics.

adverb

1. in a motion picture or television program or in one's professional life:

   On-screen he's a villain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of on-screen¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Or you are Elizabeth Taylor: an on-screen vamp with the most tempestuously public love-life dramas (with Richard Burton).

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Tambor began his on-screen career with a bit part as a medical examiner in an episode of Kojak in 1977.

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Or more accurately, her animated alter ego tells my on-screen avatar.

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But, as it turns out, she and her on-screen alter ego do have something in common: an activist streak.

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Sadly for gossip-hounds, there was no way Farrow was airing any family scandal on-screen, in this first show at least.

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