writer
Meaning
- A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
- Anything that writes or produces output.
- 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.
- (slang) A graffiti artist.
Synonyms
woman writer
option writer
argumentative person
fiction writer
quill-driver
editor 3
print routine
seller of an option
female author
one who writes
selling party
female writer
autor
prose writer
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹaɪ.tə/
Etymology
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”).
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