screenplay

Etymology

screen + play

noun

  1. (authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show.
    I know Corinne would be happy if I started writing scripts again. Since my last screenplay, I haven't written anything in over four months. 1998, Hairshirt (aka Too Smooth, movie)

verb

  1. To write a screenplay.
    Also, in the case of this novel, its adaption to the big screen in 1983, directed by James Ivory, screenplayed by Jhabvala herself—screenwriter of the year, London Critics Film Award, 1984—awarded with a BAFTA, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, gave rise to Heat and Dust's great success. 2020, Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives

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