author

Meaning

Noun

1. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
2. (US) The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship.
3. Someone who writes books for a living.
4. (obsolete) Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
5. (archaic) One's authority for something: an informant.
6. (figuratively) The creator or cause of anything.

Verb

To create a work as its author.

Synonyms

writer

✍️🧑‍🦱

novelist

creator

maker

originator

write

✍️

compiler

poet

doer

authoress

editor

composer

scribe

compose

founder

source

secretary

agent

𐐫𐑃𐐲𐑉

initiator

culprit

artist

🧑‍🎨

create

fiction writer

generator

architect

pen

🖊️

dramatist

playwright

cause

litterateur

inventor

cut

carve out

creatress

builder

confect

build

conceiver

framer

bring forth

arrange

actor

former

father

👨‍👦

factor

complier

benefactor

give birth

establish

Translations

auteur

Autor

autor

autore

Verfasser

auteur

écrivain

✍️🧑‍🦱

autor

schrijver

✍️🧑‍🦱

Schriftsteller

autor

escritor

✍️🧑‍🦱

escritor

✍️🧑‍🦱

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɔː.θə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: auctour

Cognate with Middle French: autheur

In summary

From Middle English auctour, from Anglo-Norman autour, from Old French autor, from Latin auctor, from augeō (“to increase, originate”). The h, also found in Middle French autheur, is unetymological as there is no h in the original Latin spelling. The OED attributes the h to contamination by authentic. Doublet of auteur.

Sentences

Since then Walser has been working as a freelance author .

David is an artist , best-selling author , entrepreneur and keynote speaker .

Lipovestky is the author or co-author of five books and more than seventy articles .