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