Usually means: Written blueprint for a film.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word screenplay:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. screenplay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. screenplay: Merriam-Webster
  3. screenplay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. screenplay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. screenplay: Collins English Dictionary
  6. screenplay: Vocabulary.com
  7. Screenplay, screenplay: Wordnik
  8. screenplay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. screenplay: Wiktionary
  10. screenplay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. screenplay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. screenplay: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. screenplay: Dictionary.com
  14. screenplay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ScreenPlay (album), Screenplay (TV series), Screenplay (book), Screenplay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. screenplay: Rhymezone
  17. screenplay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. screenplay: FreeDictionary.org
  19. screenplay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. screenplay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. screenplay: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. screenplay: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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▸ noun:  (authorship, cinematography) A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.
▸ verb:  To write a screenplay.

Similar:
screenwriting, playscript, teleplay, scriptwriting, script, scriptment, filmscript, telescript, spec script, property, more...

Opposite:
novel, book, story

Phrases:
screenplay writer, adapted screenplay, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay, more...

Adjectives:
original, best, first, final, own, new, entire, unpublished, unproduced, complete, page

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Similar:
screenwriting, playscript, teleplay, scriptwriting, script, scriptment, filmscript, telescript, spec script, property, more...

Opposite:
novel, book, story

Phrases:
screenplay writer, adapted screenplay, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay, more...

Adjectives:
original, best, first, final, own, new, entire, unpublished, unproduced, complete, page

Colors:
    black,     white,     gray,     blue,     red, more...



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