writer

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

écrivain

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auteur

écrivaine

homme de lettres

littérateur

rédacteur

romancier

scribe

secrétaire

artisan

auteure

scribouillard

scripteur

✍️🧑‍🦱

avocat sans cause

authoresse

auteuresse

femme-auteur

autrice

essayiste

Synonymes

author

scribe

clerk

novelist

authoress

secretary

poet

copyist

woman writer

amanuensis

pen

🖊️

journalist

litterateur

composer

option writer

designer

playwright

storyteller

essayist

dramatist

recorder

artist

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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

Traductions

Schriftsteller

scrittore

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escritor

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schrijver

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Autor

escritor

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auteur

συγγραφέας

Schreiber

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autore

scrittrice

Verfasser

escriptor

✍️🧑‍🦱

yazar

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɹaɪ.tə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: writer

Hérité de ancien anglais: wrītere

Appartenant à islandais: ritari

Appartenant à féroïen: 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”).

Phrases

He was a voracious reader and a keen writer .

C'était un lecteur vorace et un écrivain passionné.

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

Sandor a commencé sa carrière en tant qu'actrice, devenant écrivaine au milieu de la vingtaine.

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

Pottekkatt était un écrivain d'engagement social fort et d'idéaux, possédant une vision individualiste.