writer

writer: one who practices writing as an occupation;
esp : AUTHOR

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WordNet Lexical Database: ``writer''

Hyponyms of noun writer

2 senses of writer

Sense 1

writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

• authoress -- (a woman author)
• biographer
• coauthor, joint author -- (a writer who collaborates with others in writing something)
• commentator, reviewer
• abstractor, abstracter -- (one who makes abstracts or summarizes information)
• dramatist, playwright
• encyclopedist, compiler
• essayist, litterateur -- (a writer of literary works)
• folk writer -- (a writer of folk tales)
• framer -- (someone who writes a new law or plan; ``the framers of the Constitution'' )
• gag man, gagster, gag writer -- (someone who writes comic material for public performers)
• ghostwriter, ghost-writer, ghost
• Gothic romancer -- (a writer of Gothic romances)
• hack, hack writer, literary hack -- (a mediocre and disdained writer)
• journalist -- (a writer for newspapers and magazines)
• librettist -- (author of words to be set to music)
• lyricist -- (a person who writes the words for songs)
• novelist
• pamphleteer -- (a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues))
• poet, versifier
• scenarist -- (a writer of screenplays)
• scriptwriter
• space writer -- (a writer paid by the area of the copy)
• tragedian -- (a writer (esp a playwright) who writes)
• word-painter -- (a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power)
• wordsmith -- (a fluent and prolific writer)
• Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway -- (1899-1961)
• James, Henry James -- (1843-1916)
• Kafka, Franz Kafka -- (1883-1924)
• Kipling, Rudyard Kipling -- (1865-1936)
• Melville, Herman Melville -- (1819-1891)
• Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt -- (wife of Franklin Roosevelt (1884-1962))
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- (1712-1778)
• Sade, de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade -- (1740-1814)
• Shaw, G B Shaw, George Bernard Shaw -- (1856-1950)
• Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau -- (1817-1862)
• Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet -- (1694-1778)

Sense 2

writer -- (a person who is able to write and has written something)

• diarist, diary keeper, journalist -- (someone who keeps a diary or journal)
• scribe, scribbler, penman
• speller, good speller, poor speller

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of noun writer

2 senses of writer

Sense 1

writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

• communicator -- (a person who communicates with others)

Sense 2

writer -- (a person who is able to write and has written something)

• literate, litrate person -- (a person who can read and write)

Coordinate Terms of noun writer

2 senses of writer

Sense 1

writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) -> communicator -- (a person who communicates with others)

• alarmist -- (a person who alarms others needlessly)
• announcer -- (proclaims a message publicly)
• broadcaster -- (someone who broadcasts on radio or television)
• correspondent, letter writer
• extrovert, extrovert -- (a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings)
• gossip, gossiper, rumor monger, rumourmonger, news monger -- (a person given to gossiping)
• informant, source -- (one who gives information)
• laudator, lauder, extoller, applauder -- (someone who communicates high praise)
• negotiator, negotiant -- (someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach an agreement))
• persuader -- (someone who tries to persuade)
• propagandist, agitprop -- (a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government)
• propagator, disseminator -- (someone who spreads the news)
• publicist, publicizer
• rambler -- (a person whose speech or writing is not well organized)
• reporter, newsman, newsperson
• respondent, responder, answerer
• sender, transmitter
• signaler, signaller
• signer -- (someone who uses sign language)
• speaker, talker
• swearer -- (one who swears)
• sympathizer, comforter -- (commiserates with someone who has had misfortune)
• telepathist, thought-reader, mental telepathist, mind reader
• waver -- (someone who communicates by waving)
• writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

writer -- (a person who is able to write and has written something) -> literate, litrate person -- (a person who can read and write)

• reader -- (a person who can read; a literate person)
• writer -- (a person who is able to write and has written something)

> The WordNet Lexical Database was developed by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.

Webster's Dictionary, 1913: writer

1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

3. A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor. Writer of the tallies (Eng. Law), an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished. Wharton (Law. Dict.) -- Writer's cramp, palsy, ∨ spasm (Med.), a painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as in writing, violin playing, telegraphing, etc. Called also scrivener's palsy. -- Writer to the signet. See under Signet.

WashingtonPost.com: Business Glossary: writer

Writer: The seller of an option.

Memphis General Dictionary: writer

writer \'r[0xF5]^-t-er\ n
(bef. 12c)
:one who writes: as
a: AUTHOR
b: one who writes stock options