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scenarist

scenarist noun: a writer of screenplays; a screenwriter.

Noun

scenarist (plural scenarists)

  1. A writer of screenplays; a screenwriter.
    • What was acted out in the American and French Revolutions had been thought out beforehand in the writings of Locke and Rousseau, the scenarists for the drama of modern politics.1987, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students

Forms of scenarist

pluralscenarists

Origin of scenarist

From scenar(io) + -ist.

Questions about scenarist

What does scenarist mean?
Scenarist means a writer of screenplays; a screenwriter.
What part of speech is scenarist?
Scenarist is a noun.
What is the plural of scenarist?
The plural of scenarist is scenarists.

Words near scenarist in the dictionary

  1. scenarios
  2. scenarise
  3. scenarised
  4. scenarises
  5. scenarising
  6. scenarist
  7. scenarists
  8. scenarize
  9. scenarized
  10. scenarizes
  11. scenarizing

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