writer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠aɪtə(ɹ̠)]
ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/
ipa: [ˈɹ̠ăɪɾɚ]
ipa: [ˈɹ̠ɐɪɾɚ]
ipa: [ˈɹ̠ʌɪɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈɹʌɪ.təɹ/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [ˈɹ̠əjɾ̥(ə)ɹ̠]
rhymes: -aɪtə(ɹ)
homophone: righter
homophone: rider (flapping but non-Canadian raising)
Forms: form: writers
Etymology: 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. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).
Senses: examples: text: Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
text: I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
raw_tags: referring to oneself as the writer
text: the present writer (referring to oneself as the writer)
text: 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.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:
text: Though the writer has striven to dwell on aspects that have passed, or are passing away, it will be apparent that many features of Midland practice have been adopted as standard for the L.M.S.R. and other railways.
ref: 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 200:
glosses: A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
examples: text: If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.
ref: 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715:
glosses: Anything that writes or produces output.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The seller of an option.
glosses: 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.
glosses: An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
synonyms: ship writer
ship's writer
glosses: A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 443:
text: 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.
ref: 2008, Lisa Gottlieb, Graffiti Art Styles: A Classification System and Theoretical Analysis, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A graffiti artist.
Synonyms: word: author
word: penman
word: writer
Hypernyms: word: person
word: creator
word: originator
Hyponyms: word: allegorist
word: annalist
word: aphorist
word: authoress
word: bard
word: belletrist
word: biographer
word: blogger
word: chronicler
word: columnist
word: commentator
word: correspondent
word: cowriter
word: critic
word: diarist
word: drafter
word: dramatist
word: editorialist
word: elegist
word: encyclopedist
word: epicist
word: epigrammatist
word: essayist
word: feuilletonist
word: fictioneer
word: fictionist
word: ghostwriter
word: glossarist
word: hack
word: hackney writer
word: historian
word: hymnist
word: idyllist
word: journalist
word: journo
word: lexicographer
word: litterateur
word: librettist
word: lyricist
word: memoirist
word: monodist
word: monographer
word: novelist
word: obituarist
word: pamphleteer
word: penwoman
word: playwright
word: poet
word: poetess
word: polemicist
word: prosaist
word: publicist
word: pundit
word: reporter
word: revuist
word: satirist
word: scenarist
word: scholiast
word: sketchwriter
word: sonneteer
word: speechwriter
word: sportswriter
word: screenwriter
word: scribbler
word: scrivener
word: songwriter
word: space writer
word: technical writer
word: tragedian
word: versifier
word: zodiographer
word: logodaedalus
word: wordman
word: wordmonger
word: wordsman
word: wordsmith
word: wordster
Derived terms: braillewriter
CD writer
checkwriter
chequewriter
cocket writer
copy writer
copywriter
cowriter
cyberwriter
fanwriter
food writer
gagwriter
ghost writer
ghostwriter
hackney writer
hymnwriter
hyperwriter
inkwriter
letter writer
manifold writer
microwriter
multiwriter
newswriter
nonwriter
playwriter
psalmwriter
scorewriter
screenwriter
scriptwriter
signwriter
sketchwriter
skywriter
slate writer
songwriter
space writer
speechwriter
sports writer
sportswriter
subwriter
technical writer
telewriter
typewriter
wreader
writercraft
writerdom
writeress
writerish
writerless
writerling
writerly
writer's cramp
writership
writress
Related terms: word: write
word: writing
word: philosopher
word: scientist
word: scholar
word: narrator
word: storyteller
word: fabulist
word: editor
word: copyeditor
word: literature