What part of speech is author?

Author can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. author is a verb, present, 1st person singular of author (infinitive).
  • 2. author is a verb (infinitive).
  • 3. author is a noun, singular of authors.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does author mean?

Definitions

Verb

author - be the author of; "She authored this play"

Noun

author - The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
author - Someone who writes books for a living; a bookwright.
author - The author I, me.

Examples of author

#   Sentence  
1. noun Juan Cole (www.juancole.com) is a professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Michigan and author of "Sacred Space and Holy War" (I.B. Tauris, 2002).
2. noun Since the article was specifically about "death metal" I guess the author missed this little tidbit or we just have waaaaaaaaaaaaay different definitions of morality:
3. noun A report by the Center for Disease Control of interviews with AMI employees (as well as detailed interviews by author Leonard Cole) supports the conclusion that there were not one, but two, such mailings containing anthrax.
4. noun Stephen Covey, author, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
5. noun Below I pasted the email text, and it has a link to a website that automatically plays this song the author of the email created.
6. noun I read the Civet Cat story from a little while ago, and tonight, when my Mom emailed me about it, I re-read it, and went to the website with the song the author of the email created.
7. noun I'm not sure if any of you know much about civet cats, but to brief those who might not know, I will quote James Rachels, author of World Hunger and Moral Obligation among many other animal rights-related books and articles.
8. noun Author of Italian chess book.
9. noun Richard Roberts is the author of numerous books.
10. noun Dickens was the author of 'Oliver Twist'.
11. noun The author doesn't display much talent in his book.
12. noun Its author is little more than a college kid.
13. noun The author made ten mistakes in as many pages.
14. noun The novel, the author of which is a famous singer, is selling well.
15. noun Who is the author of the novel?
Sentence  
noun
Juan Cole (www.juancole.com) is a professor of modern Middle East history at the University of Michigan and author of "Sacred Space and Holy War" (I.B. Tauris, 2002).
Since the article was specifically about "death metal" I guess the author missed this little tidbit or we just have waaaaaaaaaaaaay different definitions of morality:
A report by the Center for Disease Control of interviews with AMI employees (as well as detailed interviews by author Leonard Cole) supports the conclusion that there were not one, but two, such mailings containing anthrax.
Stephen Covey, author, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
Below I pasted the email text, and it has a link to a website that automatically plays this song the author of the email created.
I read the Civet Cat story from a little while ago, and tonight, when my Mom emailed me about it, I re-read it, and went to the website with the song the author of the email created.
I'm not sure if any of you know much about civet cats, but to brief those who might not know, I will quote James Rachels, author of World Hunger and Moral Obligation among many other animal rights-related books and articles.
Author of Italian chess book.
Richard Roberts is the author of numerous books.
Dickens was the author of 'Oliver Twist'.
The author doesn't display much talent in his book.
Its author is little more than a college kid.
The author made ten mistakes in as many pages.
The novel, the author of which is a famous singer, is selling well.
Who is the author of the novel?

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