prosateur

noun

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as in proser

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  1. playwright
  2. poet
  3. screenwriter
  4. scriptwriter
  5. dramatist
  6. essayist
Noun
  • As if the venue weren’t gay enough, literati from playwright Jeremy O. Harris to Evan Ross Katz — the social-media-age Cindy Adams — are in attendance to toast the film.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The humor, an integral part of the playwright’s flamboyant arsenal, is also missed.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of playwright
Noun
  • Bananas and Tori make this archeological key dig look as easy as finding a poet in Bushwick, speeding off after only a few minutes.
    Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2024
  • The inaugural award was initially intended to go to one artist but was instead granted to two: Julian Charrière, a French-Swiss conceptual artist based in Berlin, and Cecilia Vicuña, a Chilean poet and weaver who splits time between New York Santiago, Chile.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of poet
Noun
  • Littman and Captain Phillips screenwriter Billy Ray have been organizing a phone bank in Westwood on Sunday.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
  • For now, screenwriters and novelists aren’t at risk of losing their jobs.
    Haoran Chu, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of screenwriter
Noun
  • As in the production chain, giving space to the talent of women and pushing for their inclusion in front of and behind the camera — as scriptwriters, directors, and cinematographers — is a public service duty and a strategic choice.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2024
  • Understand first what Hollywood scriptwriters call the backstory: Intel for decades dominated the global semiconductor industry, designing and manufacturing leading-edge chips.
    BYGeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
Definition of scriptwriter
Noun
  • The 2016 election and the COVID pandemic: the two major moments of the past eight years that are irresistible to dramatists but are notoriously tricky to get right.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The literary award went to Norwegian dramatist and author Jon Fosse in 2023 and French author Annie Ernaux in 2022.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024
Definition of dramatist
Noun
  • Comics essayist and Batman historian Chris Sims offers a theory.
    Abraham Josephine Riesman, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The latter film looks at a seminal period in the life of James Baldwin, the extraordinary essayist, novelist and playwright who was born 100 years ago this year.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of essayist
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“Prosateur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosateur. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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