author
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
author/ˈɔːθə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a writer of a book, article, or report.
- 2 an originator of a plan or idea.
– derivatives
authoress noun,
authorial /ɔːˈθɔːrɪəl/ adjective,
authorship noun.
authoress noun,
authorial /ɔːˈθɔːrɪəl/ adjective,
authorship noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. autor, from L. auctor, from augere ‘increase, originate’.
'author' also found in these Oxford entries:
acknowledgement
- Atharva Veda
- auteur
- authority
- authorize
- autograph
- bibliography
- canon
- citation
- cite
- co-
- co-author
- earn
- editor
- envoi
- -ess
- foreword
- ghostwriter
- holograph
- idem
- juvenilia
- knickerbocker
- lion
- man
- metafiction
- moral rights
- munshi
- oeuvre
- parabasis
- persona
- Pollyanna
- prolific
- pseudonym
- ring
- royalty
- signing
- silhouette
- text
- unpublished
- vanity
- variorum
- woman
- work
- writerly
- write-up
- zipless
