Definition of author Author

/ɔˈθɚ/ - [other] - au•thor

We found 16 definitions of author from 8 different sources.

What does author mean?

Verb authors, authoring, authored
author - be the author of; "She authored this play"
		indite, pen, compose, write put together out of existing material; "compile a list"
		penning, authorship, writing, composition the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed"
		co-author be a co-author on (a book, a paper)
		ghostwrite, ghost write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?"

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author (Noun)
The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
author (Noun)
Someone who writes books for a living; a bookwright.
author (Noun)
The author I, me.
author (Verb)
To create a work as its author.

author (n.)
The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
author (n.)
One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
author (n.)
The editor of a periodical.
author (n.)
An informant.
author (v. t.)
To occasion; to originate.
author (v. t.)
To tell; to say; to declare.

author
awth′or, n. one who originates or brings anything into being: a beginner or first mover of any action or state of things: the writer of an original book: elliptically for an author's writings: one's authority for something: an informant:—fem. Auth′oress.—adjs. Authō′rial, Auth′orish; Authorīs′able.—n. Authorisā′tion.—v.t. Auth′orise, to give authority to: to sanction: to permit: to justify: to establish by authority.—adj. Auth′orless, anonymous.—ns. Auth′orling, a petty author; Auth′orship, Auth′oring, Auth′orism, state or quality of being an author. [Through Fr. from L. auctor—augēre, auctum, to cause things to increase, to produce.]

An author is a person who writes a book, story, poem, or other written work. Their writing can be truth or fiction, short or long. Often, "author" is a word for a person whose job is to write. (A person whose job is writing is also called a writer.)

Sometimes, a person who creates something but is not a writer is called an author. Someone who writes music may be called the author of that piece of music, though we would usually call that person a composer. The French word for author, "Auteur", is another name for the director of a movie.

In biology, the first person to write an article that gives a name to and describes a type of living thing is the author of that name.