writer
/ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)//ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/
writer noun: a person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
Noun
writer (plural writers)
- 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!
- I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
- 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
- A machine or tool used for writing, often by chording keys on a specialized keyboard (e.g. braillewriter, microwriter, stenograph).
- The seller of an option.
- 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.
- An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
- 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
- A graffiti artist.
- Writers were reunited with their crews, none having seen each other since back in the day, since they'd spun from teenage affiliations into lives more burdened and serious.2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 443
- Two aspects of style co-exist in graffiti art, as explained in chapter 2. There is a writer's personal style, and there is iconic style, or style as convention.2008, Lisa Gottlieb, Graffiti Art Styles: A Classification System and Theoretical Analysis, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 77
Proper noun capitalized: Writer
Writer (plural Writers)
- A surname originating as an occupation.
writer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
writer in Hindi
- person who writes; an author
- लेखक lekhak, लेखिका lekhikā, साहित्यकार sāhityakār, रचयिता racyitā
writer in Tamil
- எழுத்தாளர், குறிப்பாக தொழில்முறையில்
writer in Marathi
- person who writes; an author
- लेखक lekhak, लेखिका lekhikā
writer in Urdu
- person who writes; an author
- لیکَھک lekhak, مُصَنِّف musannif, نَوِیسَنْدَہ navīsanda
More languagesFewer languages
- writer in Bengali
- লেখক lekhok
- writer in Telugu
- రచయిత racayita, రచయిత్రి racayitri, గ్రంథకర్త granthakarta, లేఖరి lēkhari
- writer in Malayalam
- മുൻഷി muṉṣi, രചയിതാവ് racayitāvŭ
- writer in Kannada
- ಗುಮಾಸ್ತ, ಕಾರಕೂನ, ಕುಲಕರಣಿ, ಕರಣಿಕ
- writer in Punjabi
- ਲੇਖਕ lekhak, ਲਿਖਾਰੀ likhārī, لِکھاری likhārī
- writer in Gujarati
- લહિયો lahiyo, લેખક lekhak
- writer in Sanskrit
- लेखक lekhaka
- writer in Sinhala
- ලියන්නා liyannā
- writer in Assamese
- লেখক lekhok
- writer in Pashto
- ليکوال likwāl
- writer in Tagalog
- manunulat
- writer in Arabic
- كَاتِب kātib, كَاتِبَة kātiba, مُؤَلِّف muʔallif, مُؤَلِّفَة muʔallifa
- writer in Malay
- penulis, pengarang, mualif, katib
- writer in Indonesian
- penulis, pengarang
- writer in Thai
- นักเขียน nák-kǐian, ผู้เขียน pûu-kǐian
- writer in Vietnamese
- nhà văn
- writer in Myanmar
- စာရေးဆရာ care:hca.ra
Examples of writer in a sentence
- Both science-fiction writers and physicists have written about travel through time.
- Clever touches like this are what make her such a brilliant writer.
- This pen’s a wet writer, so it’ll feather on this cheap paper.
Synonyms of writer
Forms of writer
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | writers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Writers |
Origin of writer
From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er and writ + -er. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).
From writer.
Words formed from writer
- braillewriter
- CD writer
- checkwriter
- chequewriter
- cocket writer
- copy writer
- copywriter
- cowriter
- cyberwriter
- fanwriter
- food writer
- gagwriter
- ghostwriter
- ghost writer
- hackney writer
- hymnwriter
- hyperwriter
- inkwriter
- letter writer
- manifold writer
- microwriter
- multiwriter
- newswriter
- nonwriter
- playwriter
- psalmwriter
- rulewriter
- scorewriter
- screenwriter
- scriptwriter
- signwriter
- sketchwriter
- skywriter
- slate writer
- songwriter
- space writer
- speechwriter
- sports writer
- sportswriter
- subwriter
- technical writer
- telewriter
- typewriter
- wreader
- writercraft
- writerdom
- writeress
- writerish
- writerless
- writerling
- writerly
- writer's cramp
- writership
- writress
Words that rhyme with writer
Questions about writer
- What does writer mean?
- Writer means a person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
- What is writer in Hindi?
- Writer in Hindi is लेखक (lekhak), लेखिका (lekhikā), साहित्यकार (sāhityakār). See Writer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is writer?
- Writer can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce writer?
- Writer is pronounced /ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of writer?
- The plural of writer is writers.
Words near writer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: writer (page history and authors); Writer (page history and authors); writer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); മുൻഷി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); writer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); લહિયો (Gujarati) (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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