author meaning
EN[ˈɔːθə] [ˈɔθɚ] [ɑθɚ]US
WAuthor
- An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.
- NounPLauthorsPREaut-
- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
- The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- The works of an author or authors.
- Have you read any Corinthian authors?
- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
- VerbSGauthorsPRauthoringPT, PPauthored
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- In a recent study, the authors successfully established a rabbit model reproducing the functional and neurostructural consequences of near-term intrauterine growth restriction.
- ... portrait of a gentleman bent on reforming the world — a Utopographer, the author calls him —by name Mr. Sempack.
- The authors consider single-stage posterior-only transpedicular debridement, interbody fusion, and instrumentation as a radical treatment.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of author in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Nouns
- en authority
- en authors
- en authorized
- en authoritative
- en authorize
Source: Wiktionary