screenplay

English

Alternative forms

• screen play (rare)

Etymology

From screen +‎ play.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹiːnˌpleɪ/

Noun

screenplay (plural screenplays)

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

   Hypernyms: play, script

   Hyponyms: coscreenplay; teleplay, telescript (sometimes coordinate)

   Coordinate term: radioplay

   • 1998, Hairshirt (aka Too Smooth, movie)

     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.

Derived terms

• coscreenplay

Translations

script for a movie or a television show

• Albanian: skenar (sq) m
• Arabic: سِينَارْيُو m (sināryū)
• Armenian: սցենար (hy) (scʻenar)
• Belarusian: сцэна́рый m (scenáryj), сцэна́р m (scenár)
• Bengali: চিত্রনাট্য (bn) (citronaṭṭo)
• Bulgarian: сцена́рий (bg) m (scenárij)
• Burmese: ဇာတ်ညွှန်း (my) (jathnywan:)
• Catalan: guió (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電影劇本／电影剧本 (diànyǐng jùběn), 劇本／剧本 (zh) (jùběn), 腳本／脚本 (zh) (jiǎoběn)

• Czech: scénář (cs) m
• Danish: manuskript n
• Dutch: scenario (nl) n
• Finnish: käsikirjoitus (fi)
• French: scénario (fr) m
• Georgian: სცენარი (scenari)
• German: Drehbuch (de) n
• Greek: σενάριο (el) n (senário)
• Hindi: पटकथा f (paṭakthā), परिदृश्य m (paridŕśya)
• Hungarian: forgatókönyv (hu)
• Indonesian: naskah film, cerita film
• Italian: sceneggiatura (it) f
• Japanese: 脚本 (ja) (きゃくほん, kyakuhon), スクリーンプレー (sukurīnpurē), シナリオ (ja) (shinario), 台本 (ja) (だいほん, daihon)
• Khmer: នាដកថា (km) (niədaʼkaʼthaa)
• Korean: 각본(脚本) (ko) (gakbon), 시나리오 (ko) (sinario), 대본(臺本) (ko) (daebon)
• Lao: ບົດລະຄອນ (bot la khǭn)
• Macedonian: сценарио n (scenario)
• Malay: lakon layar
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: scenario n

  Nynorsk: scenario n

• Persian: فیلمنامه (fa) (filmnâme), سناریو (fa) (senâriyo)
• Polish: scenariusz (pl) m
• Portuguese: roteiro (pt) m, argumento (pt) m
• Romanian: scenariu (ro) n
• Russian: сцена́рий (ru) m (scenárij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сценарио n

  Roman: scenario n

• Slovak: scenár m
• Slovene: scenarij (sl) m
• Spanish: guion (es), script (es)
• Swedish: manuskript (sv) n, scenario (sv) n
• Thai: บทละคร (bòt-lá-kɔɔn)
• Turkish: senaryo (tr)
• Ukrainian: сцена́рій m (scenárij)
• Vietnamese: kịch bản (vi)

Verb

screenplay (third-person singular simple present screenplays, present participle screenplaying, simple past and past participle screenplayed)

1. To write a screenplay.

   Hypernyms: script, write

   • 2020, Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives:

     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 nominated for the Palme d'Or, gave rise to Heat and Dust's great success.

Further reading

• screenplay on Wikipedia.Wikipedia