Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who writes plays; a dramatist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
writes plays ; aplaywright .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He became first known as a playwriter, but also having studied architecture conceived the idea of combining his two arts by the construction of a grand theatre on the site of the present Haymarket Opera House.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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And as a follow-up they could bring playwriter Eve Ensler's "Turning Pain into Power Tour" into the corridors of power, or at least sit in the front row when the event comes to D.C. (and bring the press with them):
Congo Crisis: Doctors without Borders Denounces Cowering Peacekeepers 2009
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Dan and Ari, please watch the ORIGINAL movie Martin Scorsese and that playwriter stole The Departed from.
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She went to [screen - and playwriter] Patricia Resnick and said, "Can you write this for me?"
Brad Balfour: Q&A: Singer/Actress Stephanie J. Block Steps Out With 9 to 5: The Musical 2009
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The ANC has learnt with shock and sadness of the untimely death of poet and playwriter, Matsemela Manaka who died in a car accident on Saturday 25 July.
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The ANC has learnt with shock and sadness of the untimely death of poet and playwriter, Matsemela Manaka who died in a car accident on Saturday 25 July.
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Well, if the Church can easily give offence, much more likely a playwriter.
Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce
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Tom Taylor, journalist and playwriter, was born 1817 in Sunderland.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking
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Bire, in his interesting book, presents Balzac in different aspects, as Royalist, playwriter, admirer of Napoleon, and so on; but M. Bire gives no connected account of his life, while M..
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Gilbert in his old age told some cavaliers he got a pass for nowt from Maister Gatherer one time mass he did and he seen his brud Maister Wull the playwriter up in Lunnon in a wrastling play wud a man on's back.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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