Definitions for author
ˈɔ θərau·thor

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

1. writer, author(noun)

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

2. generator, source, author(verb)

   someone who originates or causes or initiates something

   "he was the generator of several complaints"

3. author(verb)

   be the author of

   "She authored this play"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. author(Noun)

   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. author(Noun)

   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. author(Verb)

   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. Author(noun)

   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. Author(noun)

   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. Author(noun)

   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. Author(noun)

   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. Author(verb)

   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. Author(verb)

   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.]

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?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Michael Woods:

   Marlon James fictional retelling of the 1976 attempted murder of Bob Marley. Marlon James, 44, who now lives in Minneapolis and teaches at Macalester College, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in the British award's 47 years. It's also the first for Marlon James publisher, Oneworld Publications. ' It is a crime novel that moves beyond the world of crime and takes us deep into a recent history we know far too little about. It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be seen as a classic of our times.

2. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   Thought is shovel. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

3. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   The body is a cocoon of illusions. Instincts are marketing manipulations on which they play as a musical instrument of egoism. From death, it crumbles revealing the soul, awareness and the third eye. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

4. 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?

5. Nick Pope:

   In speculating about exotic atmospheric plasma phenomena the report's author had made the classic mistake of trying to explain one mystery in terms of another.

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