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dramaturge

dramaturge noun: someone who writes or adapts theater plays; a playwright or dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company.

Noun

dramaturge (plural dramaturges)

  1. (rare) Someone who writes or adapts theater plays; a playwright or dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company.
    Synonyms:
    dramaturgist
  2. (rare) A literary adviser or editor in a theater, opera, or film company that researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programs (or helps others with these tasks), consults with authors, and does public relations work.
    Synonyms:
    dramaturg

Verb

dramaturge (third-person singular simple present dramaturges, present participle dramaturging, simple past and past participle dramaturged)

  1. (ambitransitive, rare) To act as a dramaturge.
    • It expresses concerns about programming (“We have watched you program play after play, written, directed, cast, choreographed, designed, acted, dramaturged and produced by your rosters of white theatermakers for white audiences”); […]2020 June 9, Michael Paulson, “Theater Artists Decry Racism in Their Industry”, in The New York Times

Synonyms of dramaturge

Forms of dramaturge

Noun
pluraldramaturges
Verb
third-person singular presentdramaturges
present participledramaturging
past participledramaturged
pastdramaturged

Origin of dramaturge

* Definition 1: Borrowed from French dramaturge. * Definition 2: Borrowed from German Dramaturg.

Questions about dramaturge

What does dramaturge mean?
Dramaturge means someone who writes or adapts theater plays; a playwright or dramatist, especially one connected with a specific theater or company.
What part of speech is dramaturge?
Dramaturge can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of dramaturge?
The plural of dramaturge is dramaturges.

Words near dramaturge in the dictionary

  1. dramatizing
  2. dramatological
  3. dramatologically
  4. dramatology
  5. dramaturg
  6. dramaturge
  7. dramaturged
  8. dramaturges
  9. dramaturgic
  10. dramaturgical
  11. dramaturgically

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