playwright

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play·wright /ˈpleɪraɪt/ ●○○ noun [countable]  APTsomeone who writes plays 剧作家 SYN dramatist

Examples from the Corpus

playwright• Even when a playwright has been drafted in, you can still see the joins.• Like actor / playwright Anna Deveare Smith, he taped the interviews, and so the characters speak in their own words.• The bruising rejection might have crushed another playwright.• The other Albert was Albert Finney, who stars as a successful restaurateur attempting a reconciliation with his playwright brother.• Campbell had been a fairly well-known playwright at one time.• One of the new playwrights was Ben Jonson.• Matty is very interested in the Restoration playwrights.• These playwrights claimed they could correct vice only by sentiment, not ridicule.

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playwright
play‧wright /ˈpleɪraɪt/ noun [countable]
someone who writes plays
   SYN  dramatist
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ writer someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation. | a writer for the Independent on Sunday magazine | I always wanted to be a writer.
   ▪ author someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie. | The author will be signing copies of his book. | He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’.
   ▪ novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists. | the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland
   ▪ poet someone who writes poems: a class studying the works of modern American poets
   ▪ playwright someone who writes plays: Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in English history.
   ▪ dramatist someone who writes plays - used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: the great French dramatist, Moliere
   ▪ scriptwriter (also screenwriter) someone who writes plays for films or television: Three or four scriptwriters work on the show.
   ▪ blogger someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: a travel blogger | a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English

play·wrightBrE /ˈpleɪraɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpleɪraɪt/ 🔊 nouna person who writes plays for the theatre, television or radio 剧作家 SYN dramatist  ➡  compare screenwriter, scriptwriter