author
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)authors
- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)Synonyms: writerType of communicatorKinds poet, dramatist, novelist, lyricist, journalist, gagster, contributor, tragedian, Gothic romancer, folk writer +25 moreExamples Rousseau, Voltaire, Melville, James, Kipling, Thoreau, Borges, Aragon, Munro, Huxley +310 more
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something“he was the generator of several complaints”Synonyms: generatorsourceType of maker, shaperKinds coiner
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Translations
Noun originator or creator of a work
- Spanish
- autor
- French
- auteur
- German
- Autor
- Italian
- autore
- Portuguese
- autor
- Turkish
- yazar
- Russian
- а́втор ávtor
- Arabic
- مُؤَلِّف muʔallif
- Chinese
- 作者 zuòzhě
- Japanese
- 著者 chosha
30 more languages
- Dutch
- auteur
- Polish
- autor
- Swedish
- författare
- Greek
- δημιουργός dimiourgós
- Korean
- 저자 jeoja
- Indonesian
- pengarang
- Vietnamese
- tác giả
- Hungarian
- szerző
- Portuguese (PT)
- autor
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 作者 zuòzhě
- Albanian
- autor
- Breton
- aozer
- Catalan
- autor
- Czech
- autor
- Danish
- forfatter
- Esperanto
- aŭtoro
- Finnish
- kirjoittaja
- Georgian
- ავტორი avṭori
- Hebrew
- סוֹפֵר sofér
- Icelandic
- höfundur
- Latvian
- autors
- Lithuanian
- autorius
- Norwegian
- forfatter
- Romanian
- autor
- Scottish Gaelic
- ùghdar
- Serbo-Croatian
- autor
- Slovenian
- avtor
- Swahili
- mwandishi
- Welsh
- awdur
- Yiddish
- אויטאָר oytor
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. authour, autour, OF. autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce. See Auction, noun
1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.— John Milton
2. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.— Dr. Samuel Johnson
3. The editor of a periodical. obsolete
4. An informant. archaic Geoffrey Chaucer
1. To occasion; to originate. obsolete
Such an overthrow... I have authored.— George Chapman
2. To tell; to say; to declare. obsolete
More of him I dare not author.— Philip Massinger
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54