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auteurs

auteurs is the plural of auteur.

auteurs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of auteur.

Meaning of auteur

Noun

auteur (plural auteurs)

  1. A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of their works.
    • The libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe.1974 February 11, William Bender, “Call to vespers”, in Time

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Questions about auteurs

What is auteurs the plural of?
Auteurs is the plural of auteur.

Words near auteurs in the dictionary

  1. auteuring
  2. auteurism
  3. auteurist
  4. auteuristic
  5. auteurists
  6. auteurs
  7. auteurship
  8. autexousious
  9. auth
  10. auth.
  11. Auth. Ver.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: auteurs (page history and authors); auteur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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