Meanings
adjectivemultiscreen (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving multiple screens.
That theater's a multiscreen movie complex now, but it used to house an in-the-round stage with fat, soft, fall-asleep seats and lots of garish red carpeting.
1988 October 7, Anthony Adler, “Some Men Need Help”, in Chicago Reader
nounmultiscreen (plural multiscreens)
plural multiscreens
- A cinema with more than one screen.
Conventional cinemas had now mostly been converted to 'multiscreens'; […]
2017, Stephen Dowle, The National Bus Company: The Middle Years1 more example
Multiscreens can show blockbusters which have not yet attracted their full audience.
1997, AIMAC Proceedings, page 492
Origin
- Proto-Italic*moltos
- Latinmultus
- Latinmultī
- Middle Englishmulti-
- Englishmulti-
- Englishscreen
- Englishmultiscreen
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APA
multiscreen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multiscreen
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“multiscreen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/multiscreen. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
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