- 1appearing or written on the screen of a computer, television or cinema/movie theater on-screen courtroom dramas on-screen messages
- 2connected with the imaginary story of a film/movie and not with real life His on-screen father is also his father in real life. compare off-screen
on-screen
adjectiveBrE BrE//ˌɒn ˈskriːn//; NAmE NAmE//ˌɑːn ˈskriːn//, NAmE//ˌɔːn ˈskriːn//
[only before noun]Check pronunciation: on-screen