Writer
['raɪtə] or ['raɪtɚ]
Definition
(noun.) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay).
(noun.) a person who is able to write and has written something.
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Definition
(n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
(n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
(n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Penman.[2]. Scribe, scribbler, clerk, secretary, amanuensis, quill-driver.[3]. Author, composer.
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Examples
- Did I now look on the face of the writer of that very letter? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is perhaps natural for a European writer writing primarily for English-reading students to overrun his subject in this way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The chief writer of this Pan-Hellenic movement was Isocrates. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Christian writer Lactantius asked shrewdly whence atoms came, and what proof there was of their existence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But I will have to be a much better writer than I am now to handle them, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- How long is it since you became a letter-writer, Polly? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was a most artistic and delicate writer, and Socrates could write nothing consecutive. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The writer is, however, disposed to give the Neolithic men credit for having discovered milking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That letter was for some time in the writer's hands. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Perhaps the writer is a humorist, and had in his mind Colonel Sellers, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It asked me to consider if I would, in that case, finish what the writer had begun. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My strict sense of propriety restores it (by the hands of my wife) to its place on the writer's table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This was given out, sir, to a writer who lodges just over on the opposite side of the lane. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Besides, I was instigated by delicacy towards the unhappy writer of these few lines. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The only other lodger, she now whispered in explanation, a law-writer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Recently one of the writers had occasion to present to him a long typewritten document of upward of thirty pages for his approval. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- None of the writers seemed to understand how it was done. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Other writers, of a different stamp, with great learning and gravity, endeavoured to prove to the English people that slavery was _jure divino_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Suffering and amiability may exist together, and writers have loved to depict their conjunction; there is a human and touching harmony in the picture. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But romance-writers might know nothing of love, judging by the way in which they treat of it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Modern writers almost refuse to consider the subject, which is supposed to have been long ago settled by the common opinion of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- The writers who have nothing to say are the ones that you can buy: the others have too high a price. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I have given two fair, average specimens of the character of the testimony offered by the majority of the writers who visit this region. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- By birth he was probably a Jew, though some Jewish writers deny this; he had certainly studied under Jewish teachers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So far as the writers can ascertain this is the first example of field telephony. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Imaginative writers have supposed that he had great spiritual struggles, that he went out into the desert in agonies of doubt and divine desire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You have a new crop of prose writers. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Might not t his ring explain the supercelestial waters that gave such cause for ingenuity to the medieval writers? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen are altogether without foundation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Modern and Christian writers have often fallen short of these; they can hardly be said to have gone beyond them. Plato. The Republic.
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