dramatist
- noun
- /ˈdræməˌtɪst/
- I think he's acknowledged as one of the greatest dramatists ever.
- novelists and dramatists
- dramatist and actor
- Iraqi dramatist
So the craft of the dramatist is ancient.
- So the craft of the dramatist is ancient.
- What we're interested in as dramatists are those dramatic moments.
- And you know, you might actually need the dramatist person I just to keep track of who's who.
Examples
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Mr. Lindsay-Abaire received a Heilpern Award as the Most Promising Dramatist of 1999.
Fiction book (2000) -
Oona O'Neill was the daughter of Eugene O'Neill, still America's only Nobel Prize-winning dramatist.
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So the craft of the dramatist is ancient.
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I'm gonna give half the money to the New Dramatists' League.
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Berto Brecht, a German dramatist, wrote that there are many elements to a campaign.
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For Szondi, the work of the Swedish dramatist continued to occupy a pivotal position in Western literature.
Academic text (1997) -
Through the characters' dialogue, the dramatist seems compelled to explain this interaction of oral and literate worlds.
Academic text (1992) -
No wonder that al-Ani earned the reputation, rightly deserved, of being Iraq's premier dramatist and actor.
Academic text (1997) -
The celebrated dramatist wrote a powerful play about social injustice.
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Many young actors aspire to work with a renowned dramatist like Tennessee Williams.
Synonyms
A person who creates books, articles, or stories
A person who writes plays for the theatre
A person who makes scripts for plays, films, or TV shows
A person who writes scripts for plays or films
How Established
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dramatist comes from drama, a Greek word meaning 'action' or 'play', and the ending -ist, which means 'a person who does something', like in artist. So a dramatist is someone who writes or creates plays.