name
Meaning 1
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Colloquial Variant guide
writer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈɹ̠aɪtə(ɹ̠)]
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General-American: /ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/
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General-American: [ˈɹ̠aɪɾɚ]
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General-American: [ˈɹ̠ɐɪɾɚ]
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Inland-Northern-American: [ˈɹ̠ʌɪɾɚ]
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Canada: /ˈɹʌɪ.təɹ/
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[ˈɹ̠əjɾ̥(ə)ɹ̠] Ottawa Valley
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rhymes with -aɪtə(ɹ)
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homophone: righter
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homophone: rider (flapping but non-Canadian raising)
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CMU ARPABET: R AY1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
- I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
- the present writer (referring to oneself as the writer)
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Anything that writes or produces output.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
The seller of an option.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, finance
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noun
Meaning 5
A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 6
An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 7
A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ship writer, ship's writer
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
A graffiti artist.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: author
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: communicator
Narrower terms: abstractor, abstracter, alliterator, authoress, biographer, coauthor, joint author, commentator, reviewer, compiler, contributor, cyberpunk, drafter, dramatist, playwright, essayist, litterateur, folk writer, framer, gagman, gagster, gagwriter, ghostwriter, ghost, Gothic romancer, hack, hack writer, literary hack, journalist, librettist, lyricist, lyrist, novelist, pamphleteer, paragrapher, poet, polemicist, polemist, polemic, rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser, scenarist, scriptwriter, space writer, speechwriter, tragedian, wordmonger, word-painter, wordsmith, Aiken, Conrad Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken, Alger, Horatio Alger, Algren, Nelson Algren, Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen, Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Aragon, Louis Aragon, Asch, Sholem Asch, Shalom Asch, Sholom Asch, Asimov, Isaac Asimov, Auchincloss, Louis Auchincloss, Louis Stanton Auchincloss, Austen, Jane Austen, Baldwin, James Baldwin, James Arthur Baldwin, Baraka, Imamu Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones, Barth, John Barth, John Simmons Barth, Barthelme, Donald Barthelme, Baum, Frank Baum, Lyman Frank Brown, Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Samuel Beckett, Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm, Belloc, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc, Bellow, Saul Bellow, Solomon Bellow, Benchley, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley, Benet, William Rose Benet, Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett Bierce, Boell, Heinrich Boell, Heinrich Theodor Boell, Bontemps, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Borges, Jorge Borges, Jorge Luis Borges, Boswell, James Boswell, Boyle, Kay Boyle, Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Ray Douglas Bradbury, Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Currer Bell, Anne Bronte, Browne, Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward, Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Bunyan, John Bunyan, Burgess, Anthony Burgess, Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett, Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs, William Burroughs, William S. 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noun
Meaning 10
a person who is able to write and has written something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: literate, literate person
Narrower terms: diarist, diary keeper, journalist, scrawler, scribbler, speller, good speller, poor speller, transcriber
History
Etymology
From writer.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wreyd-der.? Proto-Germanic *wrītaną Proto-West Germanic *wrītan Old English wrītan Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Old English wrītere Middle English writer English writer From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er and writ + -er. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).
Across languages
Translations
275 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: skrywer — person who writes; an author
- Albanian: shkrimtar — person who writes; an author
- Albanian: shkrimtare — person who writes; an author
- Albanian: autor — person who writes; an author
- Albanian: autore — person who writes; an author
- Arabic: كَاتِب (kātib) — person who writes; an author
- Arabic: كَاتِبَة (kātiba) — person who writes; an author
- Arabic: مُؤَلِّف (muʔallif) — person who writes; an author
- Arabic: مُؤَلِّفَة (muʔallifa) — person who writes; an author
- Armenian: գրող (groġ) — person who writes; an author
- Aromanian: scriitor — person who writes; an author
- Assamese: লেখক (lekhok) — person who writes; an author
- Asturian: escritor — person who writes; an author
- Azerbaijani: yazıçı — person who writes; an author
- Bashkir: яҙыусы (yaźıwsı) — person who writes; an author
- Bashkir: әҙип (əźip) — person who writes; an author
- Basque: idazle — person who writes; an author
- Belarusian: пісьме́ннік (pisʹmjénnik) — person who writes; an author
- Belarusian: пісьме́нніца (pisʹmjénnica) — person who writes; an author
- Belarusian: а́ўтар (áwtar) — person who writes; an author
- Belarusian: а́ўтарка (áwtarka) — person who writes; an author
- Bengali: লেখক (lekhok) — person who writes; an author
- Bulgarian: писа́тел (pisátel) — person who writes; an author
- Bulgarian: писа́телка (pisátelka) — person who writes; an author
- Bulgarian: а́втор (ávtor) — person who writes; an author
- Bulgarian: а́вторка (ávtorka) — person who writes; an author
- Burmese: စာရေးဆရာ (care:hca.ra) — person who writes; an author
- Carpathian Rusyn: писатель (pysatelʹ) — person who writes; an author
- Carpathian Rusyn: писателька (pysatelʹka) — person who writes; an author
- Catalan: escriptor — person who writes; an author
- Catalan: escriptora — person who writes; an author
- Cebuano: tigsuwat — person who writes; an author
- Chechen: йаздархо (jazdarxo) — person who writes; an author
- Chechen: яздархо (jazdarxo) — person who writes; an author
- Cherokee: ᏗᏃᏪᎵᏍᎩ (dinowelisgi) — person who writes; an author
- Chichewa: wólémba — person who writes; an author
- Chinese Cantonese: 作家 (zok3 gaa1) — person who writes; an author
- Chinese Mandarin: 作家 (zuòjiā) — person who writes; an author
- Chinese Mandarin: 作者 (zuòzhě) — person who writes; an author
- Chinese Mandarin: 筆者 /笔者 (bǐzhě) — person who writes; an author
- Crimean Tatar: müellif — person who writes; an author
- Czech: spisovatel — person who writes; an author
- Czech: spisovatelka — person who writes; an author
- Czech: autor — person who writes; an author
- Czech: autorka — person who writes; an author
- Danish: forfatter — person who writes; an author
- Dutch: schrijver — person who writes; an author
- Dutch: schrijfster — person who writes; an author
- Dutch: auteur — person who writes; an author
- Elfdalian: fefatter — person who writes; an author
- Esperanto: skribanto — person who writes; an author
- Esperanto: skribisto — person who writes; an author
- Esperanto: verkisto — person who writes; an author
- Estonian: kirjanik — person who writes; an author
- Ewe: nuŋlɔla — person who writes; an author
- Faroese: rithøvundur — person who writes; an author
- Finnish: kirjoittaja — person who writes; an author
- Finnish: kirjailija — person who writes; an author
- French: écrivain — person who writes; an author
- French: écrivaine — person who writes; an author
- French: auteur — person who writes; an author
- French: autrice — person who writes; an author
- French: auteure — person who writes; an author
- Friulian: scritôr — person who writes; an author
- Galician: escritor — person who writes; an author
- Georgian: მწერალი (mc̣erali) — person who writes; an author
- Georgian: ჭარუ (č̣aru) — person who writes; an author
- German: Schriftsteller — person who writes; an author
- German: Schriftstellerin — person who writes; an author
- German: Autor — person who writes; an author
- German: Autorin — person who writes; an author
- German: Schreiber — person who writes; an author
- German: Schreiberin — person who writes; an author
- German: Verfasser — person who writes; an author
- Greek: συγγραφέας (syngraféas) — person who writes; an author
- Ancient Greek: συγγραφεύς (sungrapheús) — person who writes; an author
- Ancient Greek: γραφεύς (grapheús) — person who writes; an author
- Greenlandic: atuakkiortoq — person who writes; an author
- Greenlandic: oqaluttualiortoq — person who writes; an author
- Hebrew: כּוֹתֵב (kotév) — person who writes; an author
- Hebrew: סוֹפֵר (sofér) — person who writes; an author
- Hebrew: מְחַבֵּר (m'khabér) — person who writes; an author
- Hindi: लेखक (lekhak) — person who writes; an author
- Hindi: लेखिका (lekhikā) — person who writes; an author
- Hindi: साहित्यकार (sāhityakār) — person who writes; an author
- Hindi: रचयिता (racyitā) — person who writes; an author
- Hungarian: író — person who writes; an author
- Hungarian: írónő — person who writes; an author
- Hunsrik: Schreiver — person who writes; an author
- Hunsrik: Schreivrin — person who writes; an author
- Icelandic: rithöfundur — person who writes; an author
- Indonesian: penulis — person who writes; an author
- Indonesian: pengarang — person who writes; an author
- Ingrian: kirjuttaja — person who writes; an author
- Ingrian: kirjailija — person who writes; an author
- Interlingua: scriptor — person who writes; an author
- Irish: scríbhneoir — person who writes; an author
- Italian: scrittore — person who writes; an author
- Italian: scrittrice — person who writes; an author
- Italian: autore — person who writes; an author
- Italian: autrice — person who writes; an author
- Japanese: 著者 (chosha) — person who writes; an author
- Japanese: 作家 (sakka) — person who writes; an author
- Japanese: 筆者 (hissha) — person who writes; an author
- Kalmyk: бичәч (biçäç) — person who writes; an author
- Kashubian: pisôrz — person who writes; an author
- Kashubian: pisôrka — person who writes; an author
- Kazakh: жазушы (jazuşy) — person who writes; an author
- Khmer: អ្នកនិពន្ធ (nĕək nipŭən) — person who writes; an author
- Khmer: គន្ថការ (kŭənthaʼkaa) — person who writes; an author
- Korean: 저자 (jeoja) — person who writes; an author
- Korean: 작가 (jakga) — person who writes; an author
- Korean: 필자 (pilja) — person who writes; an author
- Korean: 글쓴이 (geulsseuni) — person who writes; an author
- Korean: 작자 (jakja) — person who writes; an author
- Central Kurdish: نووسەر (nûser) — person who writes; an author
- Northern Kurdish: nivîskar — person who writes; an author
- Kyrgyz: жазуучу (jazuucu) — person who writes; an author
- Lao: ນັກຂຽນ (nak khīan) — person who writes; an author
- Latin: scriptor — person who writes; an author
- Latin: scriptrix — person who writes; an author
- Latvian: rakstnieks — person who writes; an author
- Latvian: rakstniece — person who writes; an author
- Latvian: autors — person who writes; an author
- Latvian: autore — person who writes; an author
- Ligurian: scritô — person who writes; an author
- Lingala: mokomi class c1/c2 — person who writes; an author
- Lithuanian: rašytojas — person who writes; an author
- Lithuanian: rašytoja — person who writes; an author
- Lithuanian: autorius — person who writes; an author
- Lithuanian: autorė — person who writes; an author
- Luxembourgish: Schrëftsteller — person who writes; an author
- Luxembourgish: Auteur — person who writes; an author
- Macedonian: писател (pisatel) — person who writes; an author
- Macedonian: писателка (pisatelka) — person who writes; an author
- Macedonian: автор (avtor) — person who writes; an author
- Macedonian: авторка (avtorka) — person who writes; an author
- Maguindanao: panunurat — person who writes; an author
- Malay: penulis — person who writes; an author
- Malay: pengarang — person who writes; an author
- Malay: mualif — person who writes; an author
- Malay: katib — person who writes; an author
- Maltese: kittieb — person who writes; an author
- Maltese: kittieba — person who writes; an author
- Manx: screeudeyr — person who writes; an author
- Māori: kaituhi — person who writes; an author
- Maranao: panonorat — person who writes; an author
- Marathi: लेखक (lekhak) — person who writes; an author
- Marathi: लेखिका (lekhikā) — person who writes; an author
- Mauritian Creole: ekrivin — person who writes; an author
- Mongolian: зохиолч (zoxiolč) — person who writes; an author
- Mongolian: бичээч (bičeeč) — person who writes; an author
- Mongolian: ᠵᠣᠬᠢᠶᠠᠯᠴᠢ (ǰoqiyalči) — person who writes; an author
- Mongolian: ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭᠡᠴᠢ (bičigeči) — person who writes; an author
- Norman: auteu — person who writes; an author
- Norwegian Bokmål: forfatter — person who writes; an author
- Norwegian Bokmål: skribent — person who writes; an author
- Occitan: escrivan — person who writes; an author
- Old English: wrītere — person who writes; an author
- Pali: lekhaka — person who writes; an author
- Pannonian Rusyn: писатель (pisatelʹ) — person who writes; an author
- Pannonian Rusyn: писателька (pisatelʹka) — person who writes; an author
- Pashto: ليکوال (likwāl) — person who writes; an author
- Dari: نَوِیسَنْدَه (nawīsanda) — person who writes; an author
- Iranian Persian: نِویسَنْدِه (nevisande) — person who writes; an author
- Plautdietsch: Schreftstala — person who writes; an author
- Polish: pisarz — person who writes; an author
- Polish: pisarka — person who writes; an author
- Polish: autor — person who writes; an author
- Polish: autorka — person who writes; an author
- Portuguese: escritor — person who writes; an author
- Portuguese: escritora — person who writes; an author
- Punjabi: ਲੇਖਕ (lekhak) — person who writes; an author
- Punjabi: ਲਿਖਾਰੀ (likhārī) — person who writes; an author
- Punjabi: لِکھاری (likhārī) — person who writes; an author
- Romanian: scriitor — person who writes; an author
- Romanian: scriitoare — person who writes; an author
- Romanian: autor de cărți — person who writes; an author
- Romansh: scriptur — person who writes; an author
- Romansh: sriptura — person who writes; an author
- Romansh: scrivent — person who writes; an author
- Romansh: scriventa — person who writes; an author
- Russian: писа́тель (pisátelʹ) — person who writes; an author
- Russian: писа́тельница (pisátelʹnica) — person who writes; an author
- Russian: а́втор (ávtor) — person who writes; an author
- Inari-Sami: kirječällee — person who writes; an author
- Northern Sami: čálli — person who writes; an author
- Northern Sami: girječálli — person who writes; an author
- Samoan: tusitala — person who writes; an author
- Sanskrit: लेखक (lekhaka) — person who writes; an author
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhadair — person who writes; an author
- Scottish Gaelic: sgrìobhaiche — person who writes; an author
- Saraiki: لِکھاری (likhārī) — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: пи́сац — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: писатељ — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: писатѐљица — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: спѝсатељ — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: списатѐљица — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: а̀утор — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: а̀уторица — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: písac — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: pisatelj — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: pisatèljica — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: spìsatelj — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: spisatèljica — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: àutor — person who writes; an author
- Serbo-Croatian: àutorica — person who writes; an author
- Shan: ၽူႈတႅမ်ႈ (phūu tēm) — person who writes; an author
- Silesian: pisŏrz — person who writes; an author
- Sinhalese: ලියන්නා (liyannā) — person who writes; an author
- Slovak: spisovateľ — person who writes; an author
- Slovak: spisovateľka — person who writes; an author
- Slovak: autor — person who writes; an author
- Slovak: autorka — person who writes; an author
- Slovene: pisátelj — person who writes; an author
- Slovene: pisáteljica — person who writes; an author
- Slovene: písec — person who writes; an author
- Slovene: avtor — person who writes; an author
- Slovene: avtorica — person who writes; an author
- Upper Sorbian: spisowaćel — person who writes; an author
- Upper Sorbian: spisowaćelka — person who writes; an author
- Spanish: escritor — person who writes; an author
- Spanish: escritora — person who writes; an author
- Spanish: escriptor — person who writes; an author
- Spanish: escriptora — person who writes; an author
- Swahili: mwandishi — person who writes; an author
- Swedish: skribent — person who writes; an author
- Swedish: författare — person who writes; an author
- Swedish: skriftställare — person who writes; an author
- Tagalog: manunulat — person who writes; an author
- Tajik: нависанда (navisanda) — person who writes; an author
- Tatar: язучы (yazuçı) — person who writes; an author
- Tatar: әдип (ädip) — person who writes; an author
- Tausug: julo tulis — person who writes; an author
- Telugu: రచయిత (racayita) — person who writes; an author
- Telugu: రచయిత్రి (racayitri) — person who writes; an author
- Telugu: గ్రంథకర్త (granthakarta) — person who writes; an author
- Telugu: లేఖరి (lēkhari) — person who writes; an author
- Telugu: వ్రాశేవాడు (vrāśēvāḍu) — person who writes; an author
- Thai: นักเขียน (nák-kǐian) — person who writes; an author
- Thai: ผู้เขียน (pûu-kǐian) — person who writes; an author
- Turkish: müellif — person who writes; an author
- Turkish: yazar — person who writes; an author
- Turkish: yazıcı — person who writes; an author
- Turkmen: ýazyjy — person who writes; an author
- Ukrainian: письме́нник (pysʹménnyk) — person who writes; an author
- Ukrainian: письме́нниця (pysʹménnycja) — person who writes; an author
- Ukrainian: а́втор (ávtor) — person who writes; an author
- Ukrainian: а́вторка (ávtorka) — person who writes; an author
- Urdu: لیکَھک (lekhak) — person who writes; an author
- Urdu: مُصَنِّف (musannif) — person who writes; an author
- Urdu: نَوِیسَنْدَہ (navīsanda) — person who writes; an author
- Uyghur: يازغۇچى (yazghuchi) — person who writes; an author
- Uzbek: yozuvchi — person who writes; an author
- Uzbek: navisanda — person who writes; an author
- Vietnamese: nhà văn — person who writes; an author
- Volapük: lautan — person who writes; an author
- Walloon: scrijheu — person who writes; an author
- Walloon: scrijheuse — person who writes; an author
- Welsh: ysgrifennwr — person who writes; an author
- Yakut: суруйааччы (suruyaaččï) — person who writes; an author
- Yao (Africa): jwakulemba class 1 — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: מחבר (mekhaber) — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: מעכאַבער (mekhaber) — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: שרײַבער (shrayber) — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: אויטאָר (oytor) — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: פֿאַרפֿאַסער (farfaser) — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: שריפֿטשטעלער (shriftshteler) — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: וואָרטקינסטלער (vortkinstler) — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: ליטעראַט (literat) — person who writes; an author
- Yiddish: פֿעדערניק (federnik) — person who writes; an author
- Yucatec Maya: aj tsʼíib — person who writes; an author
- Yucatec Maya: ix tsʼíib — person who writes; an author
- Zazaki: nusger — person who writes; an author
- Zazaki: nustekar — person who writes; an author