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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er and writ + -er.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪ.tə/, [ˈɹ̠aɪtə]
Audio (UK) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/, [ˈɹ̠ăɪɾɚ]
Audio (US) (file)
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/, [ˈɹ̠ʌɪɾɚ]
- Rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
- Homophone: rider (in some accents)
Noun[edit]
writer (plural writers)
- A person who writes, or produces literary work.
- Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
- I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, OCLC 932915040, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
- Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and hTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
- Anything that writes or produces output.
- 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals (page 715)
- If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever
println
is called.
- If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever
- 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals (page 715)
- (finance) The seller of an option.
- (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
- (Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
- (US) A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
- Synonyms: ship writer, ship's writer
- (slang) A graffiti artist.
- 2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 443:
- Writers were reunited with their crews, none having seen each other since back in the day, since they'd spun from teenage affiliations into lives more burdened and serious.
- 2008, Lisa Gottlieb, Graffiti Art Styles: A Classification System and Theoretical Analysis, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 77:
- Two aspects of style co-exist in graffiti art, as explained in chapter 2. There is a writer's personal style, and there is iconic style, or style as convention.
Synonyms[edit]
- author
- See also Thesaurus:writer
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from writer (noun)
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
person who writes; an author
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References[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2023), “writer”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English wrītere; can be synchronically analysed as writen + -er.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
writer (plural writers)
- A draughtsman, or copyist; one who notes down the words of another.
- A record-keeper or annalist; one who records significant events.
- A writer or author; one who writes.
- (rare) One who produces a translation.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “wrīter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-30.
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