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Plural of playwright

regular plural

The plural of playwright is playwrights.

Forms of playwright

Singularplaywright /ˈpleɪˌɹaɪt/
Pluralplaywrights
Countablecountable

Playwrights in a sentence

  • There are plays by playwrights and then there are theatre texts.2011, Anna Furse, “Introduction”, in Anna Furse, editor, Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration: An…. From the entry montage
  • Both playwrights depend largely on dialogue, and have turned the stage into a rostrum.1905 September 23, The Playgoer [pseudonym], “The Stage”, in Theodore F. Bonnet, editor, Town Talk, volume XIV, number 682, San Francisco…. From the entry ladilike
  • Many playwrights dread sitting among their audiences: Nothing is quite as soul-killing as overhearing people savage your work in midperformance.2009 January 28, Patrick Healy, “An Evening in Black and White From a Playwright Who Is Neither”, in New York Times. From the entry midperformance
  • Such playwrights are to the theater what the Dr.1986 April 28, John Simon, “Sisters and Brothers”, in New York, volume 19, number 17, →ISSN, page 107. From the entry Doctor Feelgood
  • Tigar again), “Revolving Cycles” has a Pirandellian nervous breakdown; it seems to be speaking to other plays and playwrights instead of to the audience.2018 September 19, Jesse Green, “Review: In ‘The Revolving Cycles,’ What Happened to Terrell?”, in New York Times. From the entry Pirandellian

Meaning of playwright

  1. noun A writer and creator of theatrical plays.

Full definition of playwright

Questions about the plural of playwright

What is the plural of playwright?
The plural of playwright is playwrights.
Is playwright countable?
Playwright is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playwright (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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