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AUTHOR
generator, source, author
(noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something; “he was the generator of several complaints”
writer, author
(noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
author
(verb) be the author of; “She authored this play”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
author (plural authors)
The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
(with definite article: "the author") I, me. used in academic articles instead of a first-person pronoun.
Someone who writes books for a living.
(obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.
Synonyms
• (creator of a work): bookwright, creator, artist, subcreator, fabulator, writer
Verb
author (third-person singular simple present authors, present participle authoring, simple past and past participle authored)
(chiefly, US, sometimes, proscribed) To create a work as its author.
Anagrams
• Hotaru
Source: Wiktionary
Au"thor, n. Etym: [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.]
1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton.
2. One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.
3. The editor of a periodical. [Obs.]
4. An informant. [Archaic] Chaucer.
Au"thor, v. t.
1. To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.
2. To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.] More of him I dare not author. Massinger.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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