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dramatist
[ dram-uh-tist, drah-muh- ]
/ ˈdræm ə tɪst, ˈdrɑ mə- /
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Definition of dramatist
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Origin of dramatist
1670–80; <Greek
drāmat- (see
dramatic) +
-istOTHER WORDS FROM dramatist
su·per·dram·a·tist, nounWords nearby dramatist
dramatic irony,
dramatic monologue,
dramatics,
dramatic unities,
dramatis personae,
dramatist,
dramatization,
dramatize,
dramaturge,
dramaturgy,
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Words related to dramatist
How to use dramatist in a sentence
Such contemporary dramatists as Theresa Rebeck, Craig Wright and Caleen Sinnette Jennings tried out new work for her.
The bias for me, as a dramatist—to go back to the bully question—is how did we become like this?
The playwright Jon Fosse could avoid the curse of Henrik Ibsen to become a Norwegian dramatist Nobel laureate.
The first question a dramatist asks is not "Is this how it really works?"
“The opposition [between Left and Right] appealed to me as a dramatist,” he writes in The Secret Knowledge.
On the political stage, Mamet is not a dramatist; he is merely acting.
William Kenrick, an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, died.
In the literary and dramatic world Tchaikovsky had two good friends—the dramatist Ostrovsky and Sadovsky.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, an English dramatist, wit and orator, died.
Indeed, both the young gallant himself and all his satellites can safely be put down as creations of the actor-dramatist.
But every scientific man can tell you a little about nature, and every dramatist can tell you a little about dramatic truth.
British Dictionary definitions for dramatist
noun
a writer of plays; playwright
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