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How to pronounce author in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms generator, source
Type of shaper, maker
Has types coiner
Derivation authorship, auctorial
Type Words
Synonyms writer
Type of communicator
Has types dramatist, contributor, joint author, poet, poetiser, poetizer, polemic, polemicist, polemist, abstractor, space writer, librettist, speechwriter, tragedian, literary hack, litterateur, gothic romancer, framer, alliterator, commentator, cyberpunk, journalist, compiler, versifier, scenarist, pamphleteer, paragrapher, scriptwriter, essayist, word-painter, wordmonger, wordsmith, ghost, lyricist, lyrist, rhymer, reviewer, ghostwriter, rhymester, abstracter, authoress, gagman, gagster, hack, hack writer, gagwriter, biographer, coauthor, folk writer, playwright, drafter, novelist
Derivation authorship, auctorial, authorial
Type Words
Type of indite, write, compose, pen
Has types co-author, ghostwrite, ghost


She authored this play.

Examples of author

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Guessing the gender of an unknown author became part of the pleasure of reading.
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Mr. Jillette confesses that he doesn't know much about the author, Greg Gutfeld.
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That conclusion won't surprise most experts, said lead study author Tom Parsons.
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Veronica Robbins is a veteran grant writer and evaluator and a published author.
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Unfortunately, the author never really manages to get Bogart himself into focus.
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This environment also attracts aggressive tinkering foreigners like this author.
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The author, who served in the Air Force for 15 years, tracks down who they were.
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John Mariotti is an internationally known executive and an award-winning author.
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My favorite woman writer is Laura Hillebrand, author of Seabiscuit and Unbroken.
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More examples
  • Be the author of; "She authored this play"
  • Writer: writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
  • Generator: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
  • An author (sometimes, in reference to a woman author, authress or authoress) is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.
  • An author is the creator of a piece of music. The sole fact of creating a sequence of notes, even if they are not written on paper, might give someone the title of author of a melody, chords sequence or arrangement. See composer.
  • In zoological nomenclature, author citation refers to listing the person (or team) who first makes a scientific name of a taxon available. ...
  • (Authors (card game)) Authors or, The Game of Authors is a card game for three to five players. The first Game of Authors was published by G. M. Whipple & A. A. Smith of Salem, Massachusetts in 1861, and later published by Parker Brothers (also, at the time, of Salem, Massachusetts) in 1897. ...
  • The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; this sense?) A source of information; To create a work as its author; (said by audience members after a performance) Please perform again!
  • (AUTHORS) book collections organized by author