playwright
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playwright (ˈpleɪˌraɪt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| a person who writes plays | |
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Playwright
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playwright
the texts of plays that can be read, as distinct from being seen and heard in performance
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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Example sentences
So they decided to have a playwright write a play based on it.
It is a stratagem of the novelist no less than of the playwright to symbolize physically the moral nature of a character.
As a novelist and playwright, he traveled around the world.
In the end, her father suggested the poet and playwright.
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