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writer (rīt′ər)
noun
- a person who writes
- a person whose work or occupation is writing; now, specif., an author, journalist, or the like
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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n.
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.
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Converse of object
- inspire: Designed for business, but equally effective to help inspire the writer.
Adjective modifier
- prolific: He was the most prolific writer of mathematics of all time.
Noun used with modifier
- freelance: Jennifer Cook is a freelance writer living in Boulder, Colorado.
Possessives
- cramp: Then writer's cramp gripped him halfway through recording my three baptismal and one ( double-barrelled ) surname.
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.
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