dramatistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdræm.ə.tɪst/us/ˈdræm.ə.t̬ɪst/a person who writes plays
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Literature
- alliteration
- antihero
- arch-villain
- baddy
- ballad
- bard
- epigram
- hero
- heroine
- iambic
- ingénue
- limerick
- pantomime
- poetry
- prose poem
- prosody
- psalm
- quatrain
- stylistics
- tragicomedy
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People who write for work or pleasure
Examples from literature
- Jonson's scholarship was thorough, but sweetened and ventilated by his activities as poet and dramatist.
- The answer to this question is not simply that the modern dramatist is seldom a Shakespeare.
- The genius for story-telling is just the genius which is incapable of being a fine dramatist.
- This, unfortunately, could not, in the sense in which the word "good" was then meant, be said of most modern dramatists.
- Throughout the present discussion, I have insisted on the point that the great dramatists have always written primarily for the many.