Author
['ɔːθə] or ['ɔθɚ]
Definition
(n.) The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
(n.) One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
(n.) The editor of a periodical.
(n.) An informant.
(v. t.) To occasion; to originate.
(v. t.) To tell; to say; to declare.
Typist: Theodore
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Originator, inventor, maker, creator, father, former, contriver, first cause.[2]. Writer, composer.
Checker: Noelle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Creator, producer, inventor, originator, parent, cause, constructor, agent,maker, composer, fabricator, committer, perpetrator, doer
ANT:Destroyer, annihilator, demolisher, spoiler, undoer, reverser
Editor: Ned
Definition
n. one who originates or brings anything into being: a beginner or first mover of any action or state of things: the writer of an original book: elliptically for an author's writings: one's authority for something: an informant:—fem. Auth′oress.—adjs. Authō′rial Auth′orish; Authorīs′able.—n. Authorisā′tion.—v.t. Auth′orise to give authority to: to sanction: to permit: to justify: to establish by authority.—adj. Auth′orless anonymous.—ns. Auth′orling a petty author; Auth′orship Auth′oring Auth′orism state or quality of being an author.
Checker: Mario
Unserious Contents or Definition
For an author to dream that his manuscript has been rejected by the publisher, denotes some doubt at first, but finally his work will be accepted as authentic and original. To dream of seeing an author over his work, perusing it with anxiety, denotes that you will be worried over some literary work either of your own or that of some other person.
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Examples
- But this base attempt to injure Mr. Pickwick recoiled upon the head of its calumnious author. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But some sense that perhaps the economic man is not a self-evident creature seems to have touched our author. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Author of HEAVY GAME OF THE WESTERN HIMALAYAS (1881); THREE MONTHS IN THE JUNGLE (1884). Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The right of the crown to those countries described by the author is justified. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And the bulk of your fortune would be laid out in annuities on the authors or their heirs. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Forgive my enthusiasm; I am becoming excited; but when I see her trampled underfoot, I am angry at the authors of her disgrace. Plato. The Republic.
- I mentioned, it is true, with fear and trembling, the only authors I had ever read upon those subjects. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Lyell and other authors have ably treated this subject. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Different authors gave different systems, both of natural and moral philosophy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Manuel