What does author mean?
Definitions for author
ˈɔ θərau·thor
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word author.
Princeton's WordNet
writer, author(noun)
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
generator, source, author(verb)
someone who originates or causes or initiates something
"he was the generator of several complaints"
author(verb)
be the author of
"She authored this play"
Wiktionary
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.
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.
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
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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.]
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
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
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.]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'author' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2298
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'author' in Nouns Frequency: #683
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of author in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of author in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of author in a Sentence
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.
Thought is shovel. Author: 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
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?
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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Translations for author
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- مؤلّفArabic
- avtor, müəllifAzerbaijani
- а́ўтарBelarusian
- създавам, а́втор, творе́ц, творяBulgarian
- aozerBreton
- autora, autorCatalan, Valencian
- яздархоChechen
- autorCzech
- forfatterDanish
- Autor, AutorinGerman
- δημιουργός, συγγράφωGreek
- aŭtoro, verkinto, aŭtori, verkiEsperanto
- escribir, escritor, escritora, autor, autoraSpanish
- autorEstonian
- egileBasque
- پدیدآورنده, مؤلفPersian
- tekijä, kirjoittaja, tehdä, kirjoittaa, luodaFinnish
- rithøvundur, høvundurFaroese
- auteur, écrire, créerFrench
- údarIrish
- ùghdarScottish Gaelic
- autorGalician
- סופרHebrew
- लेखक, लेखिकाHindi
- otèHaitian Creole
- szerzőHungarian
- հեղինակArmenian
- höfundur, rithöfundurIcelandic
- autore, autriceItalian
- 著す, 作者, 作家, 著者Japanese
- ავტორიGeorgian
- 저자, 작가Korean
- auctorLatin
- ນັກປະພັນLao
- autorius, autorėLithuanian
- autorsLatvian
- а́вторMacedonian
- लेखक, लेखिकाMarathi
- စာရေးဆရာBurmese
- forfatterNorwegian
- schrijfster, auteur, schrijverDutch
- forfattarNorwegian Nynorsk
- autorOccitan
- autorka, autorPolish
- autorPortuguese
- autor, crea, scrie, autoareRomanian
- а́втор, созда́тель, творе́цRussian
- àutorica, аутор, àutor, ауторицаSerbo-Croatian
- autorSlovak
- avtor, avtoricaSlovene
- författa, författare, upphovsmanSwedish
- நூலாசிரியர், படைப்பாளர்Tamil
- ผู้เขียนThai
- yazar, müellifTurkish
- а́вторUkrainian
- مصنفUrdu
- tác giảVietnamese
- lautanVolapük
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