screenplayscreen‧play /ˈskriːnpleɪ/ noun [countable] 
Examples
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
word sets- a screenplay based on a novel by John O'Brien
- But they didn't look like screenplay writers.
- Every gardener in this town has a screenplay.
- I really wanted to try to write a screenplay and have the same experience that I have writing fiction.
- I think can at once give the assurance that your screenplays are unusually promising.
- Rereading his faint carbon of the screenplay.
- She felt she could influence the outcome of the screenplay by her concentrated thoughts as the story unfolded.
- The screenplay gives Sally Field a fistful of knives, which she plunges into the places where we hurt the most.
WORD SETS► Film
Collocationsanimation, nounanimator, nounart director, nounart house, nounarts cinema, nounbiopic, nounblue movie, nounB-movie, nouncameo, nouncameraman, nouncartoon, nouncine-, adjectivecine-camera, nouncine-film, nouncinema, nouncinematic, adjectivecinematography, nounclip, nouncontinuity, nouncut, nouncutting room, noundirection, noundouble, noundouble bill, noundouble feature, nounepilogue, nounextra, nounfantasy, nounfarce, nounfeature, nounfeature film, nounfilm star, nounfilmstrip, nounflashback, nounflick, nounfootage, nounfreeze-frame, noungaffer, nounHollywood, home movie, nounhorror movie, nounimage, nounimagery, nounlip-synch, verblocation, nounlot, nounmatinée, nounmiscast, verbmotion picture, nounmovie, nounmoviegoer, nounmovie star, nounmovie theater, nounmoving picture, nounmultiplex, nounmusical, nounnarrator, nounnewsreel, nounoff-screen, adverbopening night, nounOscar, nounout-take, nounPG, nounpremiere, nounproject, verbprojection, nounprojectionist, nounprojector, nounprop, nounrating, nounreel, nounrelease, verbremake, nounremake, verbre-release, verbrerun, nounretake, nounrole, nounscreen, nounscreen, verbscreening, nounscreenplay, nounscreen test, nounscreenwriter, nounscriptwriter, nounset, nounshort, nounshot, nounshow, verbsilent, adjectiveslow motion, nounsoundtrack, nounspaghetti western, nounsplicer, nounsplit screen, nounstand-in, nounstill, nounstudio, nounstunt man, nounstunt woman, nountalkie, nountearjerker, nounTechnicolor, nountheatre, nountheme, noun3-D, adjectivetop-grossing, adjectivetrailer, nountravelogue, nounturkey, nounwestern, nounwhodunit, nounX, nounX-certificate, adjectiveX-rated, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► original
the words that are written down for actors to say in a film, and the instructions that tell them what they should do SYN script· While Cameron Crowe's ode to rock, Almost Famous bagged best original screenplay and best sound.· Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers' own work.
NOUN► writer· Greene wasn't just a novelist - he was a brilliant journalist and screenplay writer.· At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door, at the back of the queue.· But they didn't look like screenplay writers.· Hugh Sixsmith was himself a screenplay writer of considerable though uncertain reputation.
VERB► write· Putting these elements together, Greene wrote a screenplay.· Scherick has yet to determine who will write the screenplay, when filming might begin or the title of the movie.· I shut myself up for a month to write a screenplay.· Exploding jokes along the way remind you that David Nobbs wrote the screenplay.· His attempts to write his own screenplay are deliciously comic depictions of fervent banality.· A: Nothing compares with the money you can make with a successful series or writing screenplays.