screenplay
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English
Alternative forms
- screen play (rare)
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
screenplay (plural screenplays)
- (authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show.
- 1998, Hairshirt (aka Too Smooth, movie)
- I know Corinne would be happy if I started writing scripts again. Since my last screenplay, I haven't written anything in over four months.
- 1998, Hairshirt (aka Too Smooth, movie)
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Translations
script for a movie or a television show
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Verb
screenplay (third-person singular simple present screenplays, present participle screenplaying, simple past and past participle screenplayed)
- To write a screenplay.
- 2020, Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives:
- Also, in the case of this novel, its adaption to the big screen in 1983, directed by James Ivory, screenplayed by Jhabvala herself—screenwriter of the year, London Critics Film Award, 1984—awarded with a BAFTA, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, gave rise to Heat and Dust's great success.
Further reading
screenplay on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
