Author
21author — 1 noun (C) 1 someone who writes books: Jeffrey Archer, successful author and politician | the author (=the person who wrote a particular book): It s clear that the author is a woman. 2 formal the person who starts a plan or idea: the author of… …
22author — I. noun Etymology: Middle English auctour, from Anglo French auctor, autor, from Latin auctor promoter, originator, author, from augēre to increase more at eke Date: 14th century 1. a. one that originates or creates ; source < software authors > …
23author — An author is a person who writes, one who practices writing as his profession or vocation. The use of the word as a transitive verb (to author a book) is widespread but is not considered standard. Instead of to author say to write or to compose… …
24author — au•thor [[t]ˈɔ θər[/t]] n. 1) lit. the composer of a literary work; writer 2) lit. the literature produced by a writer: to edit an author[/ex] 3) the maker of anything; creator; originator: the author of a new tax plan[/ex] 4) cmp cmp the writer… …
25author — n. an anonymous; beginning; classic; contemporary; established, famous, noted, recognized, well known; prolific; rising; talented; young author * * * [ ɔːθə] beginning classic contemporary established famous noted prolific recognized …
26author — /ˈɔθə / (say awthuh) noun 1. a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist. 2. the literary productions of a writer: to find a passage in an… …
27author — n. & v. n. (fem. authoress) 1 a writer, esp. of books. 2 the originator of an event, a condition, etc. (the author of all my woes). v.tr. disp. be the author of (a book, the universe, a child, etc.). Derivatives: authorial adj. Etymology: ME f.… …
28author — 1. interjection /ˈɔːθə,ˈɔθɚ,ɑθɚ/ Please perform again! Syn: encore 2. noun /ˈɔːθə,ˈɔθɚ,ɑθɚ/ a) The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary …
29author — [14] Latin auctor originally meant ‘creator, originator’; it came from auct , the past participial stem of augēre, which as well as ‘increase’ (as in English augment) meant ‘originate’. But it also developed the specific 43 awake sense ‘creator… …
30author — au·thor || É”Ëθə v. write something (book, story, report etc.); be the author of; cause something, be the creator of something, originate n. writer, one who writes a book or other literary work; one who creates, one who originates …
