Synonyms for author

Grammar : Noun

Spell : aw-ther

Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔ θər

Top 10 synonyms for author

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Définition of author

Origin : c.1300, autor "father," from Old French auctor, acteor "author, originator, creator, instigator (12c., Modern French auteur), from Latin auctorem (nominative auctor) "enlarger, founder, master, leader," literally "one who causes to grow," agent noun from auctus, past participle of augere "to increase" (see augment). Meaning "one who sets forth written statements" is from late 14c. The -t- changed to -th- 16c. on mistaken assumption of Greek origin.
...[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]

noun composer of written work

Example sentences :

Pray accept this author's copy with his best and hopefullest wishes.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

We are not this story's author, who fills time and eternity with his purpose.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

Which of the two, then, would our author want to explain metaphorically?
Extract from : « A Theological-Political Treatise [Part III] » by Benedict of Spinoza

The poem is in four cantos, the first of which is the best, and the most characteristic of the author.
Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

From some other of the author's letters we are able to trace the gradual growth of the work.
Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson

The second edition appeared in 1674, the year of the author's death.
Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson

I imagine he was asked by the author to touch up "Pericles."
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

The Satanic energy of this outburst proclaims its author, Marlowe.
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

He cherishes no quarrel, therefore, with his destiny, nor with the Author of it.
Extract from : « The Old Apple Dealer (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He thought he might make a living by his pen, and concluded to become an author.
Extract from : « The Boy Life of Napoleon » by Eugenie Foa

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