Definitions for author
ˈɔ θərau·thor

Princeton's WordNet(4.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. writer, authornoun

   writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

2. generator, source, authorverb

   someone who originates or causes or initiates something

   "he was the generator of several complaints"

3. authorverb

   be the author of

   "She authored this play"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. authornoun

   The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.

   Etymology: From autour, from autor, from auctor, from augeo. The is unetymological as there is no in the original Latin spelling. This may be from the spelling autheur.

2. authornoun

   Someone who writes books for a living; a bookwright.

   Etymology: From autour, from autor, from auctor, from augeo. The is unetymological as there is no in the original Latin spelling. This may be from the spelling autheur.

3. authorverb

   To create a work as its author.

   Etymology: From autour, from autor, from auctor, from augeo. The is unetymological as there is no in the original Latin spelling. This may be from the spelling autheur.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Authornoun

   the beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator

   Etymology: [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, n.]

2. Authornoun

   one who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler

   Etymology: [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, n.]

3. Authornoun

   the editor of a periodical

   Etymology: [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, n.]

4. Authornoun

   an informant

   Etymology: [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, n.]

5. Authorverb

   to occasion; to originate

   Etymology: [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, n.]

6. Authorverb

   to tell; to say; to declare

   Etymology: [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, n.]

Freebase(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Author

   An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Author

   awth′or, n. one who originates or brings anything into being: a beginner or first mover of any action or state of things: the writer of an original book: elliptically for an author's writings: one's authority for something: an informant:—fem. Auth′oress.—adjs. Authō′rial, Auth′orish; Authorīs′able.—n. Authorisā′tion.—v.t. Auth′orise, to give authority to: to sanction: to permit: to justify: to establish by authority.—adj. Auth′orless, anonymous.—ns. Auth′orling, a petty author; Auth′orship, Auth′oring, Auth′orism, state or quality of being an author. [Through Fr. from L. auctor—augēre, auctum, to cause things to increase, to produce.]

Matched Categories

1. • Authorship
   • Communicator
   • Write

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'author' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2298

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'author' in Nouns Frequency: #683

How to pronounce author?

1. Alex

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   Daniel

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   Mia

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of author in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of author in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of author in a Sentence

1. Khalil Gibran Muhammad:

   How often does the publishing industry have the rare opportunity to publish a second work of an author whose promise was so great but who never completed a second project?

2. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. Peering into reality, you see more, you see superfluous. 2. Love will disappear only greedy egoism will remain when people are born only from a test tube, and surrogate mothers. Surrogate love is replaced by lust. Love will die, only greedy lust will remain. 3. Human instincts deprive of honor and give rise to the vices of despair, and this is worse than animals. 4. Life is the nostalgia of happiness which is replaced by the amnesia of eternity. Consciousness turns into undead, merged together with the endless voids of reality. 5. Life is the rate of rotting meat, accelerates maturity or infantilism in which a desperate attempt is made to prolong happiness. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

3. Steven Rinella:

   I started out as a magazine writer, then author, now I’m a podcaster and TV host.

4. Isaac D?Israeli:

   Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish.

5. Henry Miller:

   The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

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