screenplay
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- screen play (rare)
Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]screenplay (plural screenplays)
- (authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.
- Hypernyms: play, script
- Hyponyms: coscreenplay; teleplay, telescript (sometimes coordinate)
- Coordinate term: radioplay
- 1998, Hairshirt (aka Too Smooth, movie)
- I know Corinne would be happy if I started writing scripts again. Since my last screenplay, I haven't written anything in over four months.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]script for a movie or a television show
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Verb
[edit]screenplay (third-person singular simple present screenplays, present participle screenplaying, simple past and past participle screenplayed)
- To write a screenplay.
- 2020, Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives:
- Also, in the case of this novel, its adaption to the big screen in 1983, directed by James Ivory, screenplayed by Jhabvala herself—screenwriter of the year, London Critics Film Award, 1984—awarded with a BAFTA, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, gave rise to Heat and Dust's great success.
Further reading
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