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FILM WRITER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does film writer mean? 

FILM WRITER (noun)
  The noun FILM WRITER has 1 sense:

1. someone who writes screenplaysplay

  Familiarity information: FILM WRITER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FILM WRITER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who writes screenplays

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

film writer; screenwriter

Hypernyms ("film writer" is a kind of...):

scriptwriter (someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas)

Instance hyponyms:

George Lucas; Lucas (United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944))

Dalton Trumbo; Trumbo (United States screenwriter who was blacklisted and imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with congressional investigations of communism in America (1905-1976))


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