prosaist

noun

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  1. poet
  2. playwright
  3. screenwriter
  4. scriptwriter
  5. dramatist
  6. essayist
  7. bard
  8. journalist
Noun
  • Katherine Anne Porter City Lights, a bookstore and publishing house founded by the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1953, is closely associated with the Beat Generation of writers.
    — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • There’s a long Greek tradition of setting modern Greek poetry to song, and the words my father sang came from the poet Manolis Anagnostakis.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Definition of poet
Noun
  • Marking his stage debut as a playwright, Macqueen has adapted his own film, while John Tiffany is set to direct.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 29 July 2026
  • Novelist-playwright Karen Tei Yamashita received a lifetime achievement prize.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026
Definition of playwright
Noun
  • Liz Craft, a screenwriter and cohost of the podcast Happier in Hollywood, began taking Mounjaro for her Type-1 diabetes two years ago.
    — Elyse Moody, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026
  • Billings is also in active development on a number of her own original projects as a screenwriter across film and television.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 July 2026
Definition of screenwriter
Noun
  • Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, whom Hegseth installed after firing Cao’s predecessor, then weighed in with a Hollywood scriptwriter’s cheesy panache to say the incident debrief was complete.
    — Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
  • The goal every amateur scriptwriter had written, and then thrown in the bin for not being quite spectacular enough.
    — Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026
Definition of scriptwriter
Noun
  • The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
  • In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
    — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Definition of dramatist
Noun
  • Novelist, essayist, playwright and activist James Baldwin was born in New York City.
    — USA Today, USA Today, 21 July 2026
  • As a fan of Debutiful, I was thrilled to be part of launching his career as a personal essayist.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Definition of essayist
Noun
  • In the film, Scott plays a Greek bard who sings about Odysseus’ victories in the Trojan War.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2026
  • There was also an opening around Ludwig Goransson's score and Travis Scott's role as an in-film bard that went largely unused.
    — Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of bard
Noun
  • As with any Olympics, the 15,000 athletes and 25,000 broadcasters and journalists will ride buses in dedicated lanes.
    — Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • This summer, the Pentagon went a step further and declared that its press office was now a classified space inaccessible to journalists.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Definition of journalist
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