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View synonyms for screenplay

screenplay

[ skreen-pley ]

noun

  1. a motion-picture or television scenario.
  2. Older Use. a motion picture.


screenplay

/ ˈskriːnˌpleɪ /

noun

  1. the script for a film, including instructions for sets and camera work


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Word History and Origins

Origin of screenplay1

First recorded in 1915–20; screen + play

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Example Sentences

Corden has actually been attached to Into the Woods since the first reading of the screenplay two-and-a-half years ago.

Will the freedom you mentioned writing the novel bleed into your work writing your next screenplay?

Does the process of writing a novel differ wildly from writing a screenplay?

Star Wars was meant to be watched as a film, not read as a screenplay.

If anyone pitched this as a screenplay, no one would have bought it.

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