writer

Plural: writers

Noun

• writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
• a person who is able to write and has written something
• A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
• Anything that writes or produces output.
• 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.
• pl. -S one that writes

Examples

• "Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!"
• "I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention."
• "the present writer (referring to oneself as the writer)"

Synonyms

author, penman, ship writer, ship's writer, writer

Related Words

copyeditor, editor, fabulist, literature, narrator, philosopher, scholar, scientist, storyteller, write, writing