What is "playwright" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does playwright mean in English? Meaning of playwright definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "playwright" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "playwright": someone who writes plays

Noun

  • Meaning: someone who writes plays
  • Synonyms: dramatist playwright
  • Hypernyms: author writer
  • Instance Hyponyms: aeschylus albee anderson andre gide andre paul guillaume gide anouilh anton chekhov anton chekov anton pavlovich chekhov anton pavlovich chekov aristophanes arthur miller athol fugard august strindberg augustin eugene scribe bard of avon barrie beaumont beckett ben jonson benjamin jonson bernd heinrich wilhelm von kleist bertolt brecht brecht calderon calderon de la barca capek carlo goldoni cervantes cervantes saavedra chekhov chekov christian friedrich hebbel christopher fry christopher marlowe clare booth luce clifford odets congreve corneille count maurice maeterlinck coward crouse cyrano de bergerac david mamet decker dekker dryden edmond rostand edmund john millington synge edward albee edward franklin albeen eliot elmer leopold rice elmer reizenstein elmer rice esme stuart lennox robinson eugene gladstone o'neill eugene ionesco eugene o'neill euripides ferenc molnar fletcher francis beaumont frederico garcia lorca friedrich hebbel fry fugard g. b. shaw gabriel tellez garcia lorca genet george bernard shaw george dibdin pitt george dibdin-pitt george pitt george s. kaufman george simon kaufman gide giraudoux goethe goldoni gotthold ephraim lessing granville-barker harley granville-barker harold pinter hart havel hebbel heinrich von kleist hellman henrik ibsen henrik johan ibsen hippolyte jean giraudoux howard lindsay hugo ibsen inge ionesco j. m. barrie j. m. synge james barrie james matthew barrie jean anouilh jean baptiste racine jean genet jean giraudoux jean racine jean-baptiste poquelin jean-paul sartre johan august strindberg johann wolfgang von goethe john dryden john fletcher john james osborne john marstan john millington synge john osborne john webster jonson karel capek kaufman kid kleist kyd lennox robinson lessing lillian hellman lindsay lope de vega lope felix de vega carpio lorca luce lucius annaeus seneca luigi pirandello maeterlinck mamet marlowe marstan marvin neil simon maxwell anderson menander middleton miguel de cervantes miguel de cervantes saavedra miller moliere molnar moss hart neil simon noel coward o'casey o'neill odets osborne oscar fingal o'flahertie wills wilde oscar wilde pedro calderon de la barca peter alexander ustinov pierre corneille pinter pirandello pitt plautus publius terentius afer racine rattigan rice richard brinsley sheridan robert emmet sherwood robinson rostand russel crouse sam shepard samuel beckett sartre savinien cyrano de bergerac scribe sean o'casey seneca shakespeare shakspere shaw shepard sheridan sherwood simon sir james matthew barrie sir noel pierce coward sir peter ustinov sir terence mervyn rattigan sir tom stoppard sophocles stoppard strindberg synge t. s. eliot tennessee williams terence terence rattigan thomas decker thomas dekker thomas kid thomas kyd thomas lanier williams thomas middleton thomas stearns eliot thomas straussler thornton niven wilder thornton wilder tirso de molina titus maccius plautus tom stoppard ustinov vaclav havel vega victor hugo victor-marie hugo w. b. yeats webster wilde wilder william butler yeats william congreve william inge william shakespeare william shakspere william wycherley williams wycherley yeats
  • Synonyms:

    author, writer, dramatist, scenarist, librettist, tragedian, dramaturge, dramaturgist, scripter,

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    playwright in English: playwright
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