writer

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
2. Anything that writes or produces output.
3. The seller of an option.
4. (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.
5. (Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
6. (US) A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
7. (slang) A graffiti artist.

Sinonieme

author

scribe

clerk

novelist

authoress

secretary

poet

copyist

woman writer

amanuensis

pen

🖊️

journalist

litterateur

composer

option writer

designer

playwright

storyteller

essayist

dramatist

recorder

artist

🧑‍🎨

editor

calligrapher

penman

argumentative person

fiction writer

Melville

quill-driver

editor 3

fictionist

inditer

print routine

seller of an option

female author

one who writes

selling party

female writer

accountant

autor

architect

bard

calligraphist

complier

drawer

engraver

grantor

hack

historian

know-it-all

Vertalings

écrivain

✍️🧑‍🦱

Schriftsteller

scrittore

✍️🧑‍🦱

escritor

✍️🧑‍🦱

auteur

schrijver

✍️🧑‍🦱

Autor

escritor

✍️🧑‍🦱

auteur

συγγραφέας

Schreiber

✍️🧑‍🦱

autore

scrittrice

Verfasser

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɹaɪ.tə/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: writer

Geërf van Old English: wrītere

Verwante met Yslands: ritari

Verwante met Faroëes: ritari

In summary

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”).

Sinne

He was a voracious reader and a keen writer .

Sandor began her career as an actress , becoming a writer in her mid-twenties.

Pottekkatt was a writer of strong social commitment and ideals , possessing an individualistic vision .