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Definitions for playwright
ˈpleɪˌraɪtplay·wright
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Princeton's WordNet
dramatist, playwrightnoun
someone who writes plays
Wiktionary
playwrightnoun
A writer and creator of theatrical plays.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Playwrightnoun
A maker of plays.
Etymology: play and wright.
He ended much in the character he had liv’d in; and Quintus Horatius Flaccus’s rule for a play may as well be applied to him as a playwright. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
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playwright
A playwright is a person who writes plays for the theater. This process involves creating the storyline, characters, dialogues, and stage directions. While the work is intended for a live performance, it is initially written in a script format. Playwrights often explore various themes and topics, using theatre as a medium to communicate their ideas or critiques to an audience.
Webster Dictionary
Playwrightnoun
a maker or adapter of plays
Wikidata
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of playwright in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of playwright in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of playwright in a Sentence
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
Havel oozed democracy and had seen totalitarianism up close, nobody thought Havel, a playwright, could end up being a great world leader, and he did.
A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
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- dramatikCzech
- Bühnenautor, Dramatiker, Bühnenautorin, DramatikerinGerman
- dramaturga, dramaturgoSpanish
- dramaturgi, näytelmäkirjailijaFinnish
- dramaturge, auteur dramatiqueFrench
- dramadeyrManx
- drámaíróHungarian
- leikritaskáldIcelandic
- drammaturgo, drammaturga, commediografo, commediografaItalian
- 脚本家Japanese
- dramaturgasLithuanian
- kittieb, drammaturgu, drammaturga, kittiebaMaltese
- toneelschrijverDutch
- dramaturgoPortuguese
- dramaturgRomanian
- драматургRussian
- dramatikerSwedish
- dalubdulaTagalog
- dramatavan, jidramatavan, hidramatavanVolapük
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