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writer Definition

writer (rīt′ər)

noun

  1. a person who writes
  2. a person whose work or occupation is writing; now, specif., an author, journalist, or the like

writer Synonyms

writer

n.

author, journalist, reporter, newspaperman, magazine writer, contributor, poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, dramatist, playwright, librettist, scenario writer, scenarist, screenwriter, literary critic, correspondent, foreign correspondent, feature writer, copywriter, sports writer, fashion writer, advertisement writer, ad-man*, publicist, scripter, shorthand writer, stenographer, anecdotist, amanuensis, ghost writer, song writer, copyist, scribe, editor, contributing editor, war correspondent, special writer, freelance writer, representative, women's reporter, knight of the pen*, member of the Fourth Estate*, quill driver*, scribbler*, wordsmith*, pen pusher*, hack*, newshound*; see also author 2, composer.

Major writers include --- British: Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Daniel Defoe, Lewis Carroll, Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell; American: James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), Henry James, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Pearl Buck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, John Barth, William Styron; French: (François-Marie Arouet de) Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rosseau, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Georges Sand, Andre Malraux, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne, Albert Camus; Italian: Niccolo Machiavelli, Giovanni Boccaccio, Alessandro Manzoni, Ignazio Silone; German: Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse, Günter Grass; Russian: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov; Spanish: Miguel de Cervantes, Jorge Luis Borges; Yiddish: I.B. Singer.

writer Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • inspire: Designed for business, but equally effective to help inspire the writer.
  • bud: Being an autodidactic pedagogue, what advice do you have for budding writers?
  • become: Is Britain's best crime novelist about to chuck ' proper books ' to become a comic book writer?
  • practice: Those wishing to develop confidence and skills in writing and communication, studying with practicing writer, linguists and critics.

Adjective modifier

  • prolific: He was the most prolific writer of mathematics of all time.
  • aspiring: What writing/publishing advice do you give to aspiring writers of any age?
  • biblical: Only by objective methodology can we bridge the gap between our minds and the minds of the biblical writers.
  • talented: It's terrific to have such a talented writer producing complex new material.
  • award-winning: Rough Guide to London Restaurants 2005 - indispensable guide to city eateries from the Evening Standard's award-winning food writer Charles Campion.
  • well-known: The plays in this book have been specially written by well-known writers for children aged 7 to 11 years.

Noun used with modifier

  • freelance: Jennifer Cook is a freelance writer living in Boulder, Colorado.
  • fiction: The science fiction writer, Frank Herbert, featured clones in many of his novels.
  • gospel: So to the gospel writers the miracles have a meaning beyond what can be seen with the eyes.
  • shorthand: Transcripts 14.9 The various shorthand writers provide a number of different transcript services.
  • cookery: A book of modern classics and old faves from Britain's most popular veggie/vegan cookery writer.
  • short-story: Nicholas Royle Already published as a poet and translator, David Constantine is now emerging as a short-story writer of considerable talent.

Possessives

  • cramp: Then writer's cramp gripped him halfway through recording my three baptismal and one ( double-barrelled ) surname.
  • block: I used to suffer from writer's block, big time!

Preposition: in

residence: Ben Musgrave was writer in residence with Havering Library Service in 2003-2004.

Preposition: of

memoir: The writer of this memoir visited him in 1910 and took down from his dictation the dialog that follows.