From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Film, Television & radioscreenplayscreen‧play /ˈskriːnpleɪ/ noun [countable]AMFAMTthe words that are written down for actors to say in a film, and the instructions that tell them what they should doSYN scriptExamples from the Corpusscreenplay• Every gardener in this town has a screenplay.• I really wanted to try to write a screenplay and have the same experience that I have writing fiction.• a screenplaybased on a novel by John O'Brien• But they didn't look like screenplaywriters.• Rereading his faintcarbon of the screenplay.• She felt she could influence the outcome of the screenplay by her concentratedthoughts as the story unfolded.• I think can at once give the assurance that your screenplays are unusually promising.