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Definition of author

Nouns

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Synonyms:: writer

Types:: show 56 types...; hide 56 types...; abstracter, abstractor
one who makes abstracts or summarizes information; alliterator
a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration; authoress
a woman author; biographer
someone who writes an account of a person's life; autobiographer
someone who writes their own biography; hagiographer, hagiographist, hagiologist
the author of a worshipful or idealizing biography; coauthor, joint author
a writer who collaborates with others in writing something; commentator, reviewer
a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day; compiler
a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes); encyclopaedist, encyclopedist
a person who compiles information for encyclopedias; lexicographer, lexicologist
a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language; contributor
a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book; cyberpunk
a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology; drafter
a writer of a draft; dramatist, playwright
someone who writes plays; essayist, litterateur
a writer of literary works; folk writer
a writer of folktales; folk poet
a folk writer who composes in verse; framer
someone who writes a new law or plan; gagman, gagster, gagwriter
someone who writes comic material for public performers; ghost, ghostwriter
a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else; Gothic romancer
a writer of Gothic romances; hack, hack writer, literary hack
a mediocre and disdained writer; journalist
a writer for newspapers and magazines; broadcast journalist
a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television; columnist, editorialist
a journalist who writes editorials; correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, pressman
a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media; gazetteer
a journalist who writes for a gazette; photojournalist
a journalist who presents a story primarily through the use of photographs; penman, scribbler, scribe
informal terms for journalists; sob sister
a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories; sports writer, sportswriter
a journalist who writes about sports; librettist
author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta; lyricist, lyrist
a person who writes the words for songs; novelist
one who writes novels; pamphleteer
a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues); paragrapher
a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper); poet
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry); bard
a lyric poet; elegist
the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead; odist
a poet who writes odes; poetess
a woman poet; poet laureate
the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain; poet laureate
a poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary position in a particular group or region; sonneteer
a poet who writes sonnets; polemic, polemicist, polemist
a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology); poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier
a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets); scenarist
a writer of screenplays; scriptwriter
someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas; film writer, screenwriter
someone who writes screenplays; space writer
a writer paid by the area of the copy; speechwriter
a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver; tragedian
a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies; wordmonger
a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning; word-painter
a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power; wordsmith
a fluent and prolific writer