writer
/ˈrʌɪtə
/noun
1A person who has written something or who writes in a particular way: the writer of the letter...
- A number of commentators, including letter writers to this newspaper, have made the point, banging on about the general rottenness of modern life.
- Creative leeway has always been granted to those novelists and letter writers who are able to pull off a controversial use of rhetoric with talent and grace.
- There also is usually a diverse mix of essayists and letter writers on our op-ed page.
1.1A person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job or occupation: Dickens was a prolific writer a writer of short stories...
- Members include a variety or writers and would vary from scribblers to novelists, poets, and writers of short stories and writers for children.
- Alex Ninian is a travel writer whose articles on India and other countries have appeared in numerous British and American publications.
- ‘The book is about growing old as a man,’ says short story writer, novelist and playwright Carl Nixon.
Synonyms
author, wordsmith, man/woman of letters, penman, creative writer
informal scribbler, scribe, pen-pusher, hack, potboiler
2 Computing A device that writes data to a storage medium: a CD writer...
- Support for multimedia devices such as CD writers is improved but SuSE support for scanners, though improved, remains less than perfect.
- You could use a zip drive, a CDR / DVD writer, a USB drive or a secure online storage service.
- Goods seized included 1000s of illegal copies of software, music and films plus PCs, CD / DVD writers and video recorders.
3 historical A scribe.
3.1 archaic A clerk, especially in the navy or in government offices.
Phrases
writer's block
writer's cramp
Origin
Old English wrītere (see write).