playwright:
(also ‘dramatist‘; plural: ‘playwrights‘; pronunciation: ‘play…wright’, and the letters ‘wright’ rhyme with the word “write”; for the right pronunciation, please click here)
a playwright on the sets
a person who writes plays/dramas in prose, i.e. in paragraphs but not in stanzas as in a poem;
a scriptwriter;
e.g.
William Shakespeare was a well-known English playwright.
The French playwright Yasmina Reza was not given good reviews when her plays were shown in the USA.
‘Wright’ generally means worker and is more often used with another related word, e.g. ‘cartwright’ = a person who makes wooden carts; ‘wheelwright’ = a person who makes wooden wheels, etc.
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