PROSATEUR Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

prosateur

noun

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Noun

Novelist, essayist, playwright and activist James Baldwin was born in New York City.

— USA Today, USA Today, 21 July 2026
Until, that is, the play’s rather retrograde climax, when the playwright’s provocateur wildness goes limp.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of playwright

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

MobLand showrunner and The Agency co-creator Jez Butterworth created the project alongside his brother, The Agency co-creator and Edge of Tomorrow screenwriter John-Henry Butterworth, as well as The 100 producer Georgia Lee.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
Yeung is known as a screenwriter with credits including Hong Kong Family, which was selected at the 27th Busan International Film Festival, and award-winning short films Liu Yang He and Wild Child.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 22 July 2026

Definition of screenwriter

Noun

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
Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.

— Jenny S. Li, Variety, 12 June 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

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