/ɹajˈtɚz/ - [rayterz] -
We found 3 definitions of writers from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: writers |
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writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | ||
author | ||
communicator a person who communicates with others | ||
abstracter, abstractor one who makes abstracts or summarizes information | ||
alliterator a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration | ||
authoress a woman author | ||
biographer someone who writes an account of a person's life | ||
coauthor, joint author a writer who collaborates with others in writing something | ||
commentator, reviewer a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day | ||
compiler (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | ||
contributor a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book | ||
cyberpunk a genre of fast-paced science fiction involving oppressive futuristic computerized societies | ||
drafter a writer of a draft | ||
dramatist, playwright someone who writes plays | ||
essayist, litterateur a writer of literary works | ||
folk writer a writer of folktales | ||
framer someone who writes a new law or plan; "the framers of the Constitution" | ||
gagster, gagwriter, gagman someone who writes comic material for public performers | ||
ghostwriter, ghost a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else | ||
gothic romancer a writer of Gothic romances | ||
hack writer, literary hack, hack a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc. | ||
journalist a writer for newspapers and magazines | ||
librettist author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta | ||
lyricist, lyrist a person who writes the words for songs | ||
novelist one who writes novels | ||
pamphleteer a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) | ||
paragrapher a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) | ||
poet a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) | ||
polemicist, polemist, polemic a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) | ||
poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | ||
scenarist a writer of screenplays | ||
scriptwriter someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas | ||
space writer a writer paid by the area of the copy | ||
speechwriter a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver | ||
tragedian an actor who specializes in tragic roles | ||
wordmonger a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning | ||
word-painter a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power | ||
wordsmith a fluent and prolific writer | ||
writer - a person who is able to write and has written something | ||
literate, literate person a person who can read and write | ||
diarist, diary keeper, journalist someone who keeps a diary or journal | ||
scrawler, scribbler a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | ||
good speller, poor speller, speller an introductory textbook to teach spelling | ||
transcriber someone who makes a written version of spoken material |