authorshipnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈɔː.θə.ʃɪp/us/ˈɑː.θɚ.ʃɪp/the state or fact of being the person who wrote a particular book, article, play, etc.:
The article is of unknown authorship (= it is not known who wrote it).
She is being attacked for her authorship of the policy document.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People who write for work or pleasure
- adapter
- authorial
- chronicle
- co-author
- contributor
- copywriter
- cub reporter
- ghostwrite
- hack
- investigative journalism
- journalist
- naturalist
- novelist
- playwright
- poet laureate
- satirist
- screenwriter
- scribbler
- scriptwriter
- speechwriter
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