writer
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
writer/ˈrʌɪtə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 a person who has written a particular text.
■ a person who writes books or articles as a regular occupation.
■ Brit. historical a scribe.
- 2 Computing a device that writes data to a storage medium.
- 3 archaic a clerk, especially in the navy or in government offices.
– phrases
writer's block the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.
writer's cramp pain or stiffness in the hand caused by excessive writing.
writer's block the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.
writer's cramp pain or stiffness in the hand caused by excessive writing.
'writer' also found in these Oxford entries:
agent
- Augustan
- author
- Bohemian
- byline
- chateaubriand
- Ciceronian
- clerihew
- co-write
- debut
- derivative
- emoticon
- engagé
- evangelist
- expressionism
- farceur
- gagster
- -grapher
- hack
- hagiographer
- herbalist
- Hoyle
- humorist
- hymnographer
- infer
- ivory tower
- Lacanian
- licence
- lipogram
- literary executor
- lyric
- lyrical
- Machiavellian
- magnum opus
- medium
- Morris chair
- munshi
- namby-pamby
- novelist
- original
- our
- pamphleteer
- Parkinson's law
- parody
- pastoralist
- pataphysics
- potboiler
- prosaic
- publicist
- quixotic
