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Entry Word:: author
Function:: noun

Text: 1 a person who creates a written work<a brilliant novel by a first-time author>Synonymspenman, writerRelated Wordscoauthor, ghostwriter, hack, scribbler; autobiographer, biographer; novelist; essayist, pamphleteer; dramatist, playwright, scenarist, screenwriter, scriptwriter; bard, poet, rhymer (or rimer); columnist, journalist, newspaperman, reporter, sportswriter 2 a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor<the author of modern genetics>— see father 2

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