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Audio Help /ËÉ Î¸Ér / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [aw -ther ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation ânoun 1. a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
2. the literary production or productions of a writer: to find a passage in an author.
3. the maker of anything; creator; originator: the author of a new tax plan.
4. Computers . the writer of a software program, esp. a hypertext or multimedia application.
âverb (used with object) 5. to write; be the author of: He authored a history of the Civil War.
6. to originate; create a design for: She authored a new system for teaching chemistry.
[Origin: 1250â1300; earlier auct (h )or auctor writer, progenitor, equiv. to aug (ére ) to increase, augment + -tor -tor ; r. ME auto (u )r autor ] âRelated forms au·tho·ri·al
Audio Help /ÉËθÉr iÉl, ÉËθoÊr- / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [aw- thawr -ee- uh l, aw- thohr -] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation , adjective au·thor·less, adjective
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au·thor
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n.
The writer of a book, article, or other text.
One who practices writing as a profession.
One who writes or constructs an electronic document or system, such as a website.
An originator or creator, as of a theory or plan.
Author God.
tr.v.
au·thored , au·thor·ing , au·thors
Usage Problem To assume responsibility for the content of (a published text).
To write or construct (an electronic document or system): authored the company's website.
[Middle English auctour , from Old French autor , from Latin auctor , creator , from auctus , past participle of augÄre , to create ; see aug- in Indo-European roots.]
au·thor'i·al (ô-thôr'Ä-Él, ô-thÅr'-) adj.
Usage Note : The verb author, which had been out of use for a long period, has been rejuvenated in recent years with the sense "to assume responsibility for the content of a published text." As such it is not quite synonymous with the verb write; one can write, but not author, a love letter or an unpublished manuscript, and the writer who ghostwrites a book for a celebrity cannot be said to have "authored" the creation. The sentence He has authored a dozen books on the subject was unacceptable to 74 percent of the Usage Panel, probably because it implies that having a book published is worthy of special lexical distinction, a notion that sits poorly with conventional literary sensibilities and seems to smack of press agentry. The sentence The Senator authored a bill limiting uses of desert lands in California was similarly rejected by 64 percent of the Panel, though here the usage is common journalistic practice and is perhaps justified by the observation that we do not expect that legislators will actually write the bills to which they attach their names. · The use of author as a verb in computer-related contexts is well established and unexceptionable.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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c.1300, autor "father," from O.Fr. auctor, from L. auctorem (nom. auctor ) "enlarger, founder," lit. "one who causes to grow," agent noun from augere "to increase" (see augment ). Meaning "one who sets forth written statements" is from c.1380. The -t- changed to -th- on mistaken assumption of Gk. origin. The verb is attested from 1596. "...[W]riting means revealing onesself to excess .... This is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why even night is not night enough. ... I have often thought that the best mode of life for me would be to sit in the innermost room of a spacious locked cellar with my writing things and a lamp. Food would be brought and always put down far away from my room, outside the cellar's outermost door. The walk to my food, in my dressing gown, through the vaulted cellars, would be my only exercise. I would then return to my table, eat slowly and with deliberation, then start writing again at once. And how I would write! From what depths I would drag it up!" [Franz Kafka]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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author noun 1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) [syn: writer ] 2. someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" [syn: generator ] verb 1. be the author of; "She authored this play"
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
author [ËoËθÉ] noun — feminine sometimes Ëauthoress
the writer of a book, article, play etc Example: He used to be a well-known author but his books are out of print now.
Arabic: ÙاتÙØ¨Ø Ù
ÙؤÙÙÙÙ
Chinese (Simplified): ä½è
Chinese (Traditional): ä½è
Czech: autor
Danish: forfatter; skribent
Dutch: auteur
Estonian: kirjanik, autor
Finnish: kirjailija, kirjoittaja
French: auteur, *-eure
German: der, *die Autor(in)
Greek: ÏÏ
γγÏαÏÎαÏ
Hungarian: szerzÅ
Icelandic: (rit)höfundur
Indonesian: pengarang
Italian: autore, autrice
Japanese: èè
Lithuanian: autorius
Norwegian: forfatter, skribent
Polish: autor
Portuguese (Brazil): autor
Portuguese (Portugal): autor
Romanian: autor
Russian: авÑоÑ
Slovak: autor, -ka
Slovenian: avtor
Spanish: autor; autora
Swedish: författare
Turkish: yazar
See also: authorship
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Author Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), n. [OE. authour, autour, OF. autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce. See Auction , n.] 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. --Milton. 2. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. --Johnson. 3. The editor of a periodical. [Obs.] 4. An informant. [Archaic] --Chaucer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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An 'author' is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to
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second entry goes on to clarify that, when using the term author, the "anything"
which is created is most usually associated with written work.
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First Date Disaster: How To Ruin A Perfect Date In Just 30 SecondsEverything was going so perfectly on our first date, until...well, until it happened
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