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# wright

noun (a wright — old, mostly in compound words); proper name (Wright)

«wright» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A wright is an old word for a person who makes or builds things, used now mostly at the end of words: playwright, shipwright, wheelwright. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#m1)
2. Wright is a common family name; the Wright brothers flew the first powered aeroplane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English lessons a playwright is a person who writes plays (not «playwrite»). In history a wheelwright made wheels and a shipwright built ships. In history and science lessons the Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, are famous for the first powered flight.

### Examples

- Shakespeare was a famous playwright. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x1)
- The wheelwright made a new wheel for the cart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x2)
- A shipwright builds and repairs ships. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x3)
- The Wright brothers built the first powered aeroplane. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x4)
- Mrs Wright is our new teacher. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x5)
- The playwright watched her play from the back row. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/#x6)

### Note

Homophones: write, right, rite — all sound the same. In «playwright» the spelling is -wright, because it means a maker of plays, not a writer of them. As a family name it has a capital W.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «wright» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wright/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«wright» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/wright.html) on Mova free.