Script Definition

skrĭpt
scripted, scripting, scripts
noun
scripts
Handwriting; written words, letters, or figures.
Webster's New World
A style of writing with cursive characters.
American Heritage
A typeface that looks like handwriting, with the letters seemingly connected when typeset.
Webster's New World
A style of handwriting; manner or method of forming letters or figures.
Webster's New World
A particular system of writing.
Cuneiform script.
American Heritage
verb
scripted, scripting, scripts
To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.
American Heritage
To arrange, direct, or control (an event or a person) as if supplying a script.
American Heritage
To write the script for (a film, etc.)
Webster's New World
abbreviation
Scriptural.
Webster's New World
Scripture.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Script

Noun

Singular:
script
Plural:
Scripts

Origin of Script

  • Middle English skript a piece of writing alteration of scrite from Old French escrit from Latin scrīptum from neuter past participle of scrībere to write skrībh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Old English scrit, Latin scriptum (something written), from scrÄ«bō (“write").

    From Wiktionary

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