WRITER

writer, author

(noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

writer

(noun) a person who is able to write and has written something

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

writer (plural writers)

A person who writes, or produces literary work.

Anything that writes or produces output.

(finance) The seller of an option.

(historical) 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.

(Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.

(US) A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.

Synonyms: ship writer, ship's writer

Synonyms

• author

• See also writer

Anagrams

• rewrit

Source: Wiktionary

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Writ"er, n. Etym: [AS. writere.]

1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They [came] that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1.

2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels. This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile. Shak.

3. A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor. Writer of the tallies (Eng. Law), an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished. Wharton (Law. Dict.)

– Writer's cramp, palsy, or spasm (Med.), a painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as in writing, violin playing, telegraphing, etc. Called also scrivener's palsy.

– Writer to the signet. See under Signet.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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