writer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wreyd-der.?
Proto-Germanic *wrītaną
Proto-West Germanic *wrītan
Old English wrītan
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Old English wrītere
Middle English writer
English writer
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”).
Base: write
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: writers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
pos: noun
examples: Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
the present writer (referring to oneself as the writer)
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.
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.
gloss: Anything that writes or produces output.
pos: noun
examples: If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.
gloss: The seller of an option.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A graffiti artist.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
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: author
penman
writer
Related words: write
writing
philosopher
scientist
scholar
narrator
storyteller
fabulist
editor
copyeditor
literature
Derived words: 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
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