writer

writ·er  (rtr)

n.

One who writes, especially as an occupation.

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writer [ˈraɪtə]

n

1. (Communication Arts / Journalism & Publishing) a person who writes books, articles, etc., esp as an occupation

2. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) the person who has written something specified

3. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who is able to write or write well

4. (Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) a scribe or clerk

5. (Music, other) a composer of music

6. (Law) Scot a legal practitioner, such as a notary or solicitor

(Law)

Writer to the Signet (in Scotland) a member of an ancient society of solicitors, now having the exclusive privilege of preparing crown writs

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) detective stories by American writers

Quotations
"The wise writer ... writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward" [F. Scott Fitzgerald Some Sort of Epic Grandeur]
"Some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers" [T.S. Eliot]
"Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders" [Walter Bagehot Estimates of some Englishmen and Scotchmen]

see diarists, dramatists, novelists, poets

Writers

Children's writers 
Louisa May Alcott (U.S.), Hans Christian Andersen (Danish), Lynn Reid Banks (English), J(ames) M(atthew) Barrie (Scottish), Judy Blume (U.S.), Enid (Mary) Blyton (English), Elinor M(ary) Brent-Dyer (English), Lewis Carroll (English), Babette Cole (British), Eoin Colfer (Irish), Susan Coolidge (U.S.), Karen Cushman (U.S.), Roald Dahl (British), Anne Digby (English), Dr Seuss (U.S.), Ann Fine (English), Kenneth Grahame (Scottish), Laura Ingalls Wilder (U.S.), Mike Inkpen (English), Robin Jarvis (English), Diana Wynne Jones (Welsh), C(live) S(taples) Lewis (English), A(lan) A(lexander) Milne (English), Michael Morpurgo (English), Jill Murphy (English), E(dith) Nesbit (English), Terry Pratchett (English), Philip Pullman (English), Chris Riddell (English), J K Rowling (British), Louis Sachar (U.S.), Dick King Smith (English), Paul Stewart (English), Noel Streatfield (English), Jacqueline Wilson (English)

Short story writers 
Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian), Jorge Luis Borges (Argentinian), Stephen Crane (U.S), Arthur Conan Doyle (British), Joel Chandler Harris (U.S.), Nathaniel Hawthorne (U.S.), Washington Irving (U.S.), Carson McCullers (U.S.), Katherine Mansfield (N.Z.-British), Herman Melville (U.S.), W(illiam) Somerset Maugham (English), (Henri René Albert) Guy de Maupassant (French), H(ector) H(ugh) Munro (Scottish), O. Henry (U.S.), Dorothy Parker (U.S.), Edgar Allan Poe (U.S.)

Non-fiction writers 
Joseph Addison (English), Aesop (Greek), Roger Ascham (English), James Boswell (Scottish), John Bunyan (English), Edmund Burke (British), Jane Welsh Carlyle (Scottish), Thomas Carlyle (Scottish), William Godwin (English), Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman), William Cobbett (English), Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch), Edward Gibbon (English), William Hazlitt (English), R.H. Hutton (English), Thomas Jefferson (U.S.), Jerome K(lapka) Jerome (English), Samuel Johnson (English), Margery Kempe (English), Lord Chesterfield (English), John Lyly (English), Thomas Malory (English), Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (French), Tom Paine (English-U.S.), Samuel Pepys (English), François Rabelais (French), John Ruskin (English), Richard Steele (English), Leslie Stephen (English), Thomas Traherne (English), Izaac Walton (English), Mary Wollstonecraft (English)

Translations

writer [ˈraɪtəʳ] N [of letter, report] → escritor(a) m/f; (as profession) → escritor(a) m/f, autor(a) m/f
a writer of detective stories → un escritor or autor de novelas policíacas
to be a good writer (handwriting) → tener buena letra; (content) → escribir bien, ser buen escritor/a
to be a poor writer (handwriting) → tener mala letra
writer's cramp → calambre m de los escribientes

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writer [ˈraɪtə^r] n → écrivain m
She's a writer → Elle est écrivain.
write-up [ˈraɪtʌp] n (= review) → critique f

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writer

n → Schreiber(in) m(f); (of scenario, report etc also) → Autor(in) m(f); (of TV commercials, subtitles) → Texter(in) m(f); (of music) → Komponist(in) m(f); (as profession) → Schriftsteller(in) m(f); the (present) writer → der Schreiber (dieser Zeilen/dieses Artikels etc); he’s a very poor writer → er schreibt sehr schlecht; (= correspondent) → er ist kein großer Briefschreiber

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writer [ˈraɪtəʳ] n (of letter, report) → autore/trice; (as profession) → scrittore/trice
to be a good/poor writer → scrivere/non scrivere bene
he's a thriller writer → è un autore di gialli
he's a writer of novels → è un romanziere
writer's cramp → crampo dello scrivano

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writer → الكاتب spisovatel forfatter Schriftsteller συγγραφέας escritor kirjailija écrivain pisac scrittore 作家 저자 schrijver forfatter pisarz escritor писатель författare นักเขียน yazar nhà văn 作者