screenplay

Alternative forms

screen play (rare)

Etymology

From screen +‎ play.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈskɹiːnˌpleɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

screenplay (plural screenplays)

(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)
Latin: scaenarium n
Macedonian: сценарио n (scenario)
Malay: lakon layar
Norwegian:
Bokmål: scenario n

Nynorsk: scenario n
Persian:
Iranian Persian: فیلْمْنامِه (filmnâme), سِنارِیو (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)

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.