Definitions for author

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author au·thor

Spelling: [aw-ther]

IPA: /ˈɔ θər/

Author is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in author (ahortu).

Definitions for author

noun

1. a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
2. the literary production or productions of a writer:
3. the maker of anything; creator; originator:
4. Computers. the writer of a software program, especially a hypertext or multimedia application.

verb (used with object)

1. to write; be the author of:
2. to originate; create a design for:

Origin of author

1250-1300; earlier auct(h)or Latin auctor writer, progenitor, equivalent to aug(ēre) to increase, augment + -tor -tor; replacing Middle Eng

Examples for author

author J.K. Rowling says all religions are present at her beloved wizard school—except Wiccans.

The Amazon biography for an author named Papa Faal mentions both Gambia and lists a military record that matches the FBI report.

Which of the two, then, would our author want to explain metaphorically?

She is the author of Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).

I resisted it, though I was immediately told by someone in the group that the author reminded him of me.

We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose.

E.J. Graff, senior fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, is the author of What Is Marriage For?

The poem is in four cantos, the first of which is the best, and the most characteristic of the author.

From some other of the author's letters we are able to trace the gradual growth of the work.

Pray accept this author's copy with his best and hopefullest wishes.