Word

playwright, n.
(playwrights)
freq. cnt. 4

someone who writes plays
<noun.person> freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 2

dramatist playwright

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derivationally related form

drama drama dramatise dramatize

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hypernym

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Aeschylus Albee, Edward Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen Anderson, Maxwell Anderson Anouilh, Jean Anouilh Aristophanes Barrie, James Barrie, J. M. Barrie, James Matthew Barrie, Sir James Matthew Barrie Beaumont, Francis Beaumont Beckett, Samuel Beckett Brecht, Bertolt Brecht Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca Capek, Karel Capek Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Chekhov, Chekov, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekov Congreve, William Congreve Corneille, Pierre Corneille Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward Crouse, Russel Crouse Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac Dekker, Decker, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Decker Dryden, John Dryden Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot Euripides Fletcher, John Fletcher Fry, Christopher Fry Fugard, Athol Fugard Garcia Lorca, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Lorca Genet, Jean Genet Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide Giraudoux, Jean Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Goldoni, Carlo Goldoni Granville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker Hart, Moss Hart Havel, Vaclav Havel Hebbel, Friedrich Hebbel, Christian Friedrich Hebbel Hellman, Lillian Hellman Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor-Marie Hugo Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Johan Ibsen Inge, William Inge Ionesco, Eugene Ionesco Jonson, Ben Jonson, Benjamin Jonson Kaufman, George S. Kaufman, George Simon Kaufman Kleist, Heinrich von Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist Kyd, Kid, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Kid Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Lindsay, Howard Lindsay Luce, Clare Booth Luce Maeterlinck, Count Maurice Maeterlinck Mamet, David Mamet Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe Marstan, John Marstan Menander Middleton, Thomas Middleton Miller, Arthur Miller Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molnar, Ferenc Molnar O'Casey, Sean O'Casey Odets, Clifford Odets O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill Osborne, John Osborne, John James Osborne Pinter, Harold Pinter Pirandello, Luigi Pirandello Pitt, George Pitt, George Dibdin Pitt, George Dibdin-Pitt Plautus, Titus Maccius Plautus Racine, Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine Rattigan, Terence Rattigan, Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein Robinson, Lennox Robinson, Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson Rostand, Edmond Rostand Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre Scribe, Augustin Eugene Scribe Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Shakspere, William Shakspere, Bard of Avon Shaw, G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw Shepard, Sam Shepard Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Sheridan Sherwood, Robert Emmet Sherwood Simon, Neil Simon, Marvin Neil Simon Sophocles Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Sir Tom Stoppard, Thomas Straussler Strindberg, August Strindberg, Johan August Strindberg Synge, J. M. Synge, John Millington Synge, Edmund John Millington Synge Terence, Publius Terentius Afer Tirso de Molina, Gabriel Tellez Ustinov, Sir Peter Ustinov, Peter Alexander Ustinov Vega, Lope de Vega, Lope Felix de Vega Carpio Webster, John Webster Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder Williams, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Lanier Williams Wycherley, William Wycherley Yeats, William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats