screenplay

To write a screenplay.

Noun

  1. A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.
    • 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)

    Hypernyms: play script

    Coordinate Terms: radioplay

Origin

From screen + play.

Forms

screenplays screen play

Derived

coscreenplay

Verb

  1. To write a screenplay.
    • 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...

    Hypernyms: script write

Forms

screenplays screenplaying screenplayed screen play