Definition of 'author'
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present
tense, plural authors
, present participle authoring, past tense, past participle authored
1. countable noun
The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
She is the joint author of a booklet on Integrated Education. [+ of]
2. countable noun
An author is a person whose job is writing books.
...Philip Pullman, the best-selling author of children's fiction.
3. countable noun
4. verb
To author something means to be the author of it.
Then he opened a restaurant, authored a book, and landed his own radio show. [VERB noun]
...a proposal authored by subcommittee chairman Quentin Burdick. [VERB-ed]
5. See also co-author
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noun
2.
a person who writes books as a profession; writer
verb (transitive)
5.
to write or originate
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Word origin of 'author'
noun
1.
a person who makes or originates something; creator; originator
“author of liberty”
2.
a writer of a book, article, etc.; often specif., a person whose profession is writing
books
verb transitive
3.
to be the author of
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Word origin of 'author'
Example sentences containing 'author'
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She had once wondered how someone could spend an entire term just teaching about one author. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1) (2002)Edward was immediately spoken of as if he were himself an established author, even a literary authority. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK (2002)He's a highly regarded member of the faculty, fully tenured, the author of a definitive textbook. A RODENT OF DOUBT (2002)
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Translations for 'author'
British English: author
/ˈɔːθə/ NOUN
The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
...the author of the report.
- American English: author
- Arabic: مُؤَلِّف
- Brazilian Portuguese: autor
- Chinese: 作者
- Croatian: autor
- Czech: autor
- Danish: forfatter
- Dutch: auteur
- European Spanish: autor
- Finnish: kirjailija
- French: auteur
- German: Autor
- Greek: συγγραφέας
- Italian: autore
- Japanese: 著者
- Korean: 저자
- Norwegian: forfatter
- Polish: autor
- European Portuguese: autor
- Romanian: autor
- Russian: автор
- Spanish: autor
- Swedish: författare
- Thai: นักประพันธ์
- Turkish: yazar
- Ukrainian: автор
- Vietnamese: tác giả
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