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letter-writer

letter-writer is the alternative form of writer.

Meaning of writer

Noun

writer (plural writers)

  1. A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
    • Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
  2. Anything that writes or produces output.
    • If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715
  3. A machine or tool used for writing, often by chording keys on a specialized keyboard (e.g. braillewriter, microwriter, stenograph).
  4. The seller of an option.
  5. (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.
  6. (Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.

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Forms of letter-writer

pluralletter-writers

Questions about letter-writer

What is letter-writer the alternative form of?
Letter-writer is the alternative form of writer.

Words near letter-writer in the dictionary

  1. letter-quality printing
  2. letter-size
  3. letter-spacing
  4. letter-stamp
  5. letter-stamps
  6. letter-writer
  7. letter-writers
  8. letteral
  9. letterals
  10. letterboard
  11. letterboards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: letter-writer (page history and authors); writer (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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