Another word for author
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Noun
One that creates, founds, or originates
- A man who rules a family, clan, or tribe.
- One of the antediluvian progenitors of the human race, from Adam to Noah.
- Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or any of Jacob's 12 sons, the eponymous progenitors of the 12 tribes of Israel.
- A female person whose egg unites with a sperm or a male person whose sperm unites with an egg, resulting in the conception of a child or the birth of a child.
- A female person who is pregnant with or gives birth to a child except when someone else has legal rights to the child.
- A person who adopts a child.
- Someone who originates, creates or founds something.
- One that makes or manufactures. Often used in combination:
- A party that signs a promissory note or contract.
- God. Often used with a possessive adjective:
- a person who invents; esp., one who devises a new contrivance, method, etc.
- To sink below the surface of the water:
- To cave in; sink:
- To fail utterly; collapse:
- A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.
- A male whose impregnation of a female results in the birth of a child.
- A man who adopts a child.
- A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture.
- One that creates:
- God. Used with the.
- One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.
- One that plans, devises, or organizes something:
- To plan, organize, and bring to fruition:
See also:
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Another word for author
Noun
One who originates
- One who initiates
- (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization
- (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs
- One regarded as the initial source of energy directed toward a goal:
- The initial force, such as electricity, wind, or gravity, that engages or moves a machine.
- A machine or mechanism that converts natural energy into work.
- A procreator; one who begets.
- (figuratively) An originator; a creator.
- One that composes, especially a person who composes music.
- One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts.
- A person whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill:
- One, such as an actor or singer, who works in the performing arts.
- A person who fabricates or manufactures something; a manufacturer
- A person who makes a fabrication of something; a counterfeiter or falsifier
- One that produces, especially a person or organization that produces goods or services for sale.
- A person who supervises and controls the administrative, financial, and commercial aspects of staging a show or performance or of creating and distributing a movie or audio recording.
- A furnace that manufactures producer gas.
- a person who prompts; specif., one who cues performers when they forget their lines
- teleprompter
- a person who organizes
- a labor-union official whose work is enlisting new members
- a device, usually with many compartments, for use in arranging items on a desktop, the contents of a closet, etc. more efficiently
- A male whose sperm unites with an egg, producing an embryo.
- A male whose impregnation of a female results in the birth of a child.
- A man who adopts a child.
- To sink below the surface of the water:
- To cave in; sink:
- To fail utterly; collapse:
- A device for projecting a beam of light.
- A device that projects an image onto a screen or other surface.
- One who devises plans or projects.
- One that produces designs:
- Bearing the name, signature, or identifying pattern of a specific designer:
- Conceived or created by a designer.
- One who is skilled in strategy.
- a person who plans, specif., one trained or engaged in planning the development of a city or region
- a thing that aids in planning, specif. a small calendar, typically in the form of a booklet, with space at each date for listing appointments and activities
- One that makes or manufactures. Often used in combination:
- A party that signs a promissory note or contract.
- God. Often used with a possessive adjective:
- One who discovers; the person who discovered something.
- A skilled worker; a craftsperson.
- One that contrives, devises, or constructs something:
- A deceptive or devious person.
- One that frames:
- One of the people who wrote the US Constitution.
- One who designs and supervises the construction of buildings or other large structures.
- One that plans, devises, or organizes something:
- To plan, organize, and bring to fruition:
- One that creates:
- God. Used with the.
- Someone who originates, creates or founds something.
- a person who invents; esp., one who devises a new contrivance, method, etc.
One who writes
- The spirit of a dead person, especially one that is believed to appear to the living in bodily form or to haunt specific locations.
- A person's spirit or soul:
- A returning or haunting memory or image.
- One who scribbles, especially an author regarded as very minor, untalented, or disreputable:
- To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows:
- To break up the surface of (soil).
- To alter (a computer program):
- One who forms and expresses judgments of the merits, faults, value, or truth of a matter.
- One who specializes especially professionally in the evaluation and appreciation of literary or artistic works:
- One who tends to make harsh or carping judgments; a faultfinder.
- A learned person.
- A specialist in a given branch of knowledge:
- One who attends school or studies with a teacher; a student.
- One who writes, compiles, or edits a dictionary.
- A person who writes for or compiles an encyclopedia.
- One of the writers of the French Encyclopédie (1751–1772), including its editors, Diderot and d'Alembert.
- One who writes for and gives credit of authorship to another.
- a woman writer
- A woman who is a writer of poems.
- A copyist; a scribe.
- An expert in penmanship.
- An author; a writer.
- A public clerk or secretary, especially in ancient times.
- A professional copyist of manuscripts and documents.
- A writer or journalist.
- The author of a libretto.
- One who writes screenplays.
- One who writes screenplays.
- A writer of belles-lettres.
- A benefactor; someone who donates to charity or some cause.
- A person who backs, supports or champions a cause, activity or institution.
- A person (thing) instrumental in the creation or growth of something.
- A writer of a column in a publication, such as a newspaper.
- One whose occupation is journalism.
- One who keeps a journal.
- One who writes, composes, or produces biography.
- One who writes plays; a dramatist.
- One who writes plays; a playwright.
- A writer of poems.
- One who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical:
- A writer of essays.
- A writer of novels.
- One who writes, especially as an occupation.
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