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# wright

«wright» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old word for a person who makes or builds things, used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wright — old, mostly in compound words); proper name (Wright)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A wright is an old word for a person who makes or builds things, used now mostly at the end of words: playwright, shipwright, wheelwright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#m1)

2) Wright is a common family name; the Wright brothers flew the first powered aeroplane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons a playwright is a person who writes plays (not «playwrite»). In history a wheelwright made wheels and a shipwright built ships. In history and science lessons the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, are famous for the first powered flight.

### examples

- Shakespeare was a famous playwright. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x1)
- The wheelwright made a new wheel for the cart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x2)
- A shipwright builds and repairs ships. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x3)
- The Wright brothers built the first powered aeroplane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x4)
- Mrs Wright is our new teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x5)
- The playwright watched her play from the back row. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x6)

### note

Homophones: write, right, rite — all sound the same. In «playwright» the spelling is -wright, because it means a maker of plays, not a writer of them. As a family name it has a capital W.

### In the corpora

- [On 17 December 1903 the Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled flight in an aeroplane; it lasted 12 seconds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/9/)
- [The Wright brothers made the first powered, controlled aeroplane flight on 17 December 1903.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/99-transport-horses-to-planes/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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