au·thor·ship

(ô′thər-shĭp′)

1. The act, fact, or occupation of writing.

2. Source or origin, as of a book or idea: a poem of disputed authorship.

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authorship

(ˈɔːθəˌʃɪp)

1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the origin or originator of a written work, plan, etc: a book of unknown authorship.

2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the profession of writing books

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au•thor•ship

(ˈɔ θərˌʃɪp)

n.

1. origin, esp. with reference to an author, creator, or producer of a work: to establish the authorship of a medieval poem.

2. the occupation or career of writing.

[1700–10]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	authorship - the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" penning, writing, composition verbal creation - creating something by the use of speech and language adoxography - fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects; "Elizabethan schoolboys were taught adoxography, the art of eruditely praising worthless things"; "adoxography is particularly useful to lawyers" drafting - writing a first version to be filled out and polished later dramatisation, dramatization - conversion into dramatic form; "the play was a dramatization of a short story" fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization - writing in a fictional form historiography - the writing of history metrification - writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition) novelisation, novelization - converting something into the form of a novel redaction - the act of putting something in writing lexicography - the act of writing dictionaries versification - the art or practice of writing verse indite, pen, write, compose - produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" write about, write of, write on - write about a particular topic; "Snow wrote about China" profile - write about; "The author of this article profiles a famous painter" paragraph - write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher dash off, fling off, scratch off, toss off, knock off - write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper"; "He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess" rewrite - rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose; "re-write a play for use in schools" write copy - write for commercial publications; "She writes copy for Harper's Bazaar" dramatise, dramatize, adopt - put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay" draft, outline - draw up an outline or sketch for something; "draft a speech" author - be the author of; "She authored this play" co-author - be a co-author on (a book, a paper) ghostwrite, ghost - write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" annotate, footnote - add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments; "The scholar annotated the early edition of a famous novel" reference, cite - refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" write out, write up - put into writing; write in complete form; "write out a contract" script - write a script for; "The playwright scripted the movie"
	2.	authorship - the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed" paternity founding, instauration, origination, initiation, innovation, creation, institution, introduction, foundation - the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society"

Translations

تَأليف، كَون الشَّخْص كاتِباً

авторство

autorstvíspisovatelství

forfatterskab

Autorschaft

autorstvo

szerzõség

ritstörf

paternit...

forfatterskap

autorstvo

yazarlık

作者的情况作者身份

authorship

[ˈɔːθəʃɪp] N

1. [of book etc] → autoría f
of unknown authorship → de autor desconocido

2. (= profession) → profesión f de autor

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

authorship

[ˈɔːθə^rʃɪp] n [book, poem, letter] → paternité f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

authorship

→ Autorschaft f, → Verfasserschaft f; of unknown authorship → eines unbekannten Autors or Verfassers; he claimed/denied authorship of the article → er bekannte/bestritt, den Artikel verfasst or geschrieben zu haben; there are disagreements as to the authorship of the play → der Autor des Stückes ist umstritten

(= occupation) → Schriftstellerberuf m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

authorship

[ˈɔːθəˌʃɪp] n → paternità (letteraria)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

author

(ˈoːθə) – feminine sometimes ˈauthoress – noun

the writer of a book, article, play etc. He used to be a well-known author but his books are out of print now.

ˈauthorship noun

the state or fact of being an author.

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I recall very fully the moment and the place when I first heard of 'Don Quixote,' while as yet I could not connect it very distinctly with anybody's authorship. I was still too young to conceive of authorship, even in my own case, and wrote my miserable verses without any notion of literature, or of anything but the pleasure of seeing them actually come out rightly rhymed and measured.

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Fac-simile copies of this piece had been in possession of the present editor some time previous to its publication in "Scribner's Magazine" for September, 1875; but as proofs of the authorship claimed for it were not forthcoming, he refrained from publishing it as requested.

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(A cry of "It is," and great cheering.) He would take the assertion of that honourable Pickwickian whose voice he had just heard--it was celebrated; but if the fame of that treatise were to extend to the farthest confines of the known world, the pride with which he should reflect on the authorship of that production would be as nothing compared with the pride with which he looked around him, on this, the proudest moment of his existence.

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Here was a weary experience in which he was as utterly condemned to loneliness as in the despair which sometimes threatened him while toiling in the morass of authorship without seeming nearer to the goal.

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Even authorship was taking a start; Sir Dinadan the Humor- ist was first in the field, with a volume of gray-headed jokes which I had been familiar with during thirteen centuries.

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I do not know what he means to do with himself after leaving college, but trust that, by dabbling so early with the dangerous and seductive business of authorship, he will not bc tempted to become an author by profession.

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Authorship seemed, like her bannock-baking, to consist of running between two points.

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He had never seen the whole poem, and he had tried vainly to learn its authorship. I here give the fragment, not alone because he loved it, but because it epitomized the paradox that he was in the spirit of him, and his conception of his spirit.

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"They are disguised hands, except the letter," he said, presently, "but there can be no question as to the authorship. See how the irrepressible Greek e will break out, and see the twirl of the final s.

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I have taken with fear and trembling to authorship. I wrote a little something, in secret, and sent it to a magazine, and it was published in the magazine.

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His father, who had died young, had filled a small diplomatic post, and it had been intended that the son should follow the same career; but an insatiable taste for letters had thrown the young man into journalism, then into authorship (apparently unsuccessful), and at length--after other experiments and vicissitudes which he spared his listener--into tutoring English youths in Switzerland.

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By taking advantage of the fact that he and Werper always were kept together, Mugambi sought to learn what the other knew of the whereabouts of Tarzan, or the authorship of the raid upon the bungalow, as well as the fate of Lady Greystoke; but as he was confined to the accidents of conversation for this information, not daring to acquaint Werper with his true identity, and as Werper was equally anxious to conceal from the world his part in the destruction of his host's home and happiness, Mugambi learned nothing--at least in this way.

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