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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
auteur /əʊˈtəː, ɔː-/

▶noun a film director who influences their films so much that they rank as their author.

– derivatives
auteurism noun,
auteurist adjective.

– origin 1960s: from Fr., lit. ‘author’.

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