auteur
Plural: auteurs
Noun
- a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works
- A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of their works.
- pl. -S the creator of a film
Verb
- To work as an auteur.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French auteur (“author”). Popularised by François Truffaut in the 1954 essay “Une certaine tendance du cinéma français” (“A certain tendency in French cinema”) in the influential film journal Cahiers du Cinéma as the phrase “la politique des Auteurs”. Doublet of author.
Scrabble Score: 6
auteur: valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordauteur: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
auteur: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
auteur is a valid Words With Friends word