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authorlings

authorlings is the plural of authorling.

Meaning of authorling

Noun

authorling (plural authorlings)

  1. A young or insignificant author.
    • It is true that authorlings and poetizers are apt to affect eccentricity. Real authors, and even real poets, (by real we mean good ones,) have generally a large portion of common sense to balance their genius […]1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies, page 263

Questions about authorlings

What is authorlings the plural of?
Authorlings is the plural of authorling.

Words near authorlings in the dictionary

  1. authorizing
  2. authorless
  3. authorlessness
  4. authorlike
  5. authorling
  6. authorlings
  7. authorly
  8. Authorpe
  9. authors
  10. authorship
  11. authorships

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Adapted from Wiktionary: authorlings (page history and authors); authorling (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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