writer
noun
- person who uses written words to communicate ideas and to produce works of literature
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/ / [ˈɹ̠aɪtə(ɹ̠)] / /ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/
name
Etymology: From writer.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wreyd-der.? Proto-Germanic *wrītaną Proto-West Germanic *wrītan Old English wrītan Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Old English wrītere Middle English writer English writer 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”).
- A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
“Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!”
“I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.”
- Anything that writes or produces output.
“If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.”
- 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.
- A graffiti artist.
“Writers were reunited with their crews, none having seen each other since back in the day, since they'd spun from teenage affiliations into lives more burdened and serious.”
“Two aspects of style co-exist in graffiti art, as explained in chapter 2. There is a writer's personal style, and there is iconic style, or style as convention.”