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screenwriter

noun

Etymology

From screen + writer.

  1. inherited from wrītere — “draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”
  2. inherited from writer
  3. compounded as screenwriter — “screen + writer”

Definitions

  1. One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television

    One who writes for the screen, who writes drama for film or television; especially a professional who knows the conventions appropriate to such work.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for screenwriter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA