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# playwright

«playwright» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who writes plays for the theatre** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a playwright, playwrights)

### meaning for a pupil

A playwright is a person who writes plays for the theatre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playwright/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons a playwright writes scripts with characters, dialogue and stage directions; famous playwrights include Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Miller. Phrases: a famous playwright, the playwright's notes.

### examples

- Shakespeare is the most famous English playwright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playwright/#x1)
- Our class became playwrights and wrote short plays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playwright/#x2)
- The playwright watched the first show from the back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playwright/#x3)
- A playwright writes what actors say. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playwright/#x4)
- The young playwright won a prize. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playwright/#x5)
- Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playwright/#x6)

### note

Spelling trap: «wright», not «write». «Wright» is an old word for a maker or builder (as in wheelwright, shipwright), so a playwright is a «play maker». Countable: playwrights.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «playwright» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/playwright/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.