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screenwriter

[ skreen-rahy-ter ]

/ ˈskrinˌraɪ tər /

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noun

a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.

Origin of screenwriter

First recorded in 1920–25; screen + writer

Words nearby screenwriter

screeno, screenplay, screensaver, screenshort, screenshot, screenwriter, screet, screever, screigh, screw, screw around

Example sentences from the Web for screenwriter

Director Yoo Dong-hun and screenwriter Lee Jung-u were arrested for firebombing theaters.

Propaganda, Protest, and Poisonous Vipers: The Cinema War in Korea |Rich Goldstein |December 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The story “pretty much just wrote itself,” Mann said, though it “helped” that he was also a novelist and (soon) a screenwriter.

How to Get Away With a Hollywood Murder |Tim Teeman |October 10, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
One of the ways Fincher and his screenwriter Gillian Flynn accomplished this feat of “femininity” was to give Amy agency.

Oral Sex Comes of Age in Hollywood: ‘Gone Girl’ the Latest Film to Showcase Female Pleasure |Marlow Stern |October 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Was it a surprise when screenwriter Emily [Wachtel] actually got Johnny Depp to play Matthew?

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Murphy married Simon Monjack, a British screenwriter, in May 2007, and the couple shared a house with her mother, Sharon.

‘Clueless’: How the Greatest Clique of the ‘90s Transformed Into A Shakespearean Tragedy |Marlow Stern |May 30, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for screenwriter

screenwriter

/ (ˈskriːnˌraɪtə) /

noun

a person who writes screenplays