What's The Definition Of Author?
[n] someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
[n]
[v] be the author of; "She authored this play"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Author: generator |
source |
writer
Related Terms | Find terms related to Author: actor |
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See Also | abstracter |
abstractor |
Aiken |
Alger |
Algren |
alliterator |
Ambrose Bierce |
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce |
Andersen |
Anderson |
Aragon |
Asch |
Asimov |
Auchincloss |
Austen |
authoress |
Baldwin |
Baraka |
Barth |
Barthelme |
Baum |
Beckett |
Beerbohm |
Bellow |
Benchley |
Benet |
Bierce |
biographer |
coauthor |
co-author |
coiner |
commentator |
communicator |
compiler |
compose |
Conrad Aiken |
Conrad Potter Aiken |
contributor |
Donald Barthelme |
drafter |
dramatist |
encyclopedist |
essayist |
folk writer |
framer |
Frank Baum |
gagman |
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gagwriter |
ghost |
ghost |
ghostwrite |
ghostwriter |
Gothic romancer |
hack |
hack writer |
Hans Christian Andersen |
Horatio Alger |
Imamu Amiri Baraka |
indite |
Isaac Asimov |
James Arthur Baldwin |
James Baldwin |
Jane Austen |
John Barth |
John Simmons Barth |
joint author |
journalist |
LeRoi Jones |
librettist |
literary hack |
litterateur |
Louis Aragon |
Louis Auchincloss |
Louis Stanton Auchincloss |
Lyman Frank Brown |
lyricist |
maker |
Max Beerbohm |
Nelson Algren |
novelist |
pamphleteer |
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pen |
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poet |
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reviewer |
rhymer |
rhymester |
Robert Benchley |
Robert Charles Benchley |
Samuel Beckett |
Saul Bellow |
scenarist |
scriptwriter |
Shalom Asch |
shaper |
Sherwood Anderson |
Sholem Asch |
Sholom Asch |
Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm |
space writer |
speechwriter |
tragedian |
versifier |
William Rose Benet |
wordmonger |
word-painter |
wordsmith |
write
Author In Webster's Dictionary
\Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), n. [OE. authour, autour, OF.
autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously,
written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce.
See {Auction}, n.]
1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence,
the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. --Milton.
2. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as
distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
The chief glory of every people arises from its
authors. --Johnson.
3. The editor of a periodical. [Obs.]
4. An informant. [Archaic] --Chaucer.
\Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), v. t.
1. To occasion; to originate. [Obs.]
Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. --Chapman.
2. To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.]
More of him I dare not author. --Massinger.
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