writer.
A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
Meaning & usage
A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
Anything that writes or produces output.
A machine or tool used for writing, often by chording keys on a specialized keyboard (e.g. braillewriter, microwriter, stenograph).
The seller of an option.
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.
An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
A graffiti artist.
Where this word comes from
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”).
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