writer

writ·er  (rtr)

n.

One who writes, especially as an occupation.

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writer

Noun

1. a person whose job is writing; author

2. the person who has written something specified: the writer of this letter is pretty dangerous

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) author communicator - a person who communicates with others 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 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) 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 framer - someone who writes a new law or plan; "the framers of the Constitution" gagster, gagwriter, gagman - someone who writes comic material for public performers ghostwriter, ghost - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else Gothic romancer - a writer of Gothic romances hack writer, literary hack, hack - a mediocre and disdained writer journalist - a writer for newspapers and magazines 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) 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 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
	2.	writer - a person who is able to write and has written something diarist, diary keeper, journalist - someone who keeps a diary or journal literate, literate person - a person who can read and write scrawler, scribbler - a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read good speller, poor speller, speller - someone who spells words transcriber - someone who makes a written version of spoken material transcriber - someone who rewrites in a different script

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writer

noun author, novelist, hack, columnist, scribbler, scribe, essayist, penman, wordsmith, man of letters, penpusher, littérateur, penny-a-liner (rare) see see, dramatists see see, novelists see see, poets

Translations

writer [ˈraɪtəʳ] n → escritor(a) m/f

writer [ˈraɪtəʳ] write n → auteur m, écrivain m

writer [ˈraɪtəʳ] write n (= author) → Schriftsteller(in) m(f) (= of report, document etc); Verfasser(in) m(f)

writer [ˈraɪtəʳ] n → autore/trice, scrittore/trice