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noun

  1. One who originates

    inventor, originator, creator, architect, framer, artificer, discoverer, innovator, maker, planner, strategist, designer, projector, founder, father, organizer, prompter, producer, fabricator, artist, composer, begetter, prime mover, initiator, the brains*.

  2. One who writes

    writer, novelist, essayist, poet, short-story writer, dramatist, playwright, biographer, journalist, columnist, contributor, littérateur (French), belletrist, script writer, scenario writer, scenarist, screenwriter, librettist, scribe, penman, poetess, authoress, literary man, ghostwriter, encyclopedist, lexicographer, scholar, critic, annotator, hack, hack writer, scribbler, freelance writer, ghost*; see also writer.

    Antonyms reader*, audience, publisher.

See author in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II


noun

One that creates, founds, or originates:

architect, creator, entrepreneur, father, founder2, inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch. See start

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