writerwrit‧er /ˈraɪtə $ -ər/ ●●● S3 W2 noun [countable] 
She’s one of my favourite writers. a science-fiction writerwriter on a well-known writer on American musicwriter of a writer of children’s stories2someone who has written something or who writes in a particular way: He’s always been a sloppy writer.writer of the writer of the previous message on this topicCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + writera good/great writer· She was a very good writer.· Dr Johnson was already a great writer at the age of thirty-five.a fiction/science-fiction/mystery writer· The movie is based on a story by science-fiction writer Phillip K. Dick.a travel/history/sports etc writer (=someone who writes articles and books about a subject)· This region of Europe does not excite many travel writers.a prolific writer (=someone who writes a lot of books etc)· He was a prolific writer of everything from poems to essays.a freelance writer· She now works as a freelance writer.THESAURUSwriter someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: · Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.· a writer for the Independent on Sunday magazine· I always wanted to be a writer.author someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: · Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie.· The author will be signing copies of his book.· He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’.novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: · Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.· the romantic novelist Barbara Cartlandpoet someone who writes poems: · a class studying the works of modern American poetsplaywright someone who writes plays: · Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in English history.dramatist someone who writes plays – used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: · the great French dramatist, Molierescriptwriter (also screenwriter) someone who writes plays for films or television: · Three or four scriptwriters work on the show.blogger someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: · a travel blogger· a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a writer of romantic novels
- a political writer for the New York Times
- Among his influences, he places Wynton Marsalis and writer Stanley Goode.
- Do you have any books by modern American writers?
- Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.
- I enjoy reading American writers.
- Rush is a poet and writer of fiction.
- When I was young, I wanted to be a famous writer.
- Feminist writers have wanted, of course, to indict the various forms of brutality and coercion from which women have suffered.
- However, in interviews last week, several former Forbes writers and editors confirmed the report in Fortune.
- Some writers and journalists ridiculed her appeals, which were often received with hostility by militant students.
- The best writers manage to have sympathy for all their characters; there is always more than one side to represent.
- These, however, are indicated in scores and livrets and noted by contemporary writers on opera performance.
THESAURUS
someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: · Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.· a writer for the Independent on Sunday magazine· I always wanted to be a writer.
someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: · Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie.· The author will be signing copies of his book.· He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’.
someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: · Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.· the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland
someone who writes poems: · a class studying the works of modern American poets
someone who writes plays: · Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in English history.
someone who writes plays – used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: · the great French dramatist, Moliere
(also screenwriter) someone who writes plays for films or television: · Three or four scriptwriters work on the show.
someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: · a travel blogger· a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who writes books someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: · When I was young, I wanted to be a famous writer.· Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.American/German etc writer: · Do you have any books by modern American writers?(the) writer George Eliot/Arthur C. Clarke etc: · Among his influences, he places Wynton Marsalis and writer Stanley Goode.writer of: · Rush is a poet and writer of fiction.ghost writer (=someone who is paid to write a book for a person, as if it was their own work): · It seems likely that Campbell's book is almost wholly attributable to a ghostwriter.
someone who writes books, or who wrote a particular book, especially a literary book: · Balzac was one of her favourite authors.· A little gentle encouragement is all that is needed to put this promising author into the ranks of the high-flyers.German/French etc author: · The prize was won by the German author, Heinrich Böll.(the) author Marcel Proust/Steven King etc: · Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie.author of: · Who was the author of 'Catch 22'?· We will be interviewing Lisa Mainero, author of 'Office Romance'. co-author (=someone who writes a book with another person): · With co-author Eyre, Barlow has produced a book charting the history of African music.
someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: · Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.French/Hispanic etc novelist: · Japanese novelists deal with the question of old age in a way few other writers can aspire to.(the) novelist Barbara Cartland/Carlos Fuentes etc: · The book quotes from the diaries of novelist Evelyn Waugh.· Budding gay novelist Larry Kramer is enjoying success at last.
someone who writes books, articles, stories etc someone whose job is to write books, stories etc: · When I was young, I wanted to be a writer.· I enjoy reading American writers.· a political writer for the New York Times· He's a good speech writer (=someone who writes speeches for other people), and much in demand among politicians.writer of: · a writer of romantic novels
someone who writes books, or who wrote a particular book: · Dickens is one of my favourite authors.· The author recalls scenes from her childhood. author of: · The author of 'Surfing on the Internet', JC Hertz, will be on tonight's show. co-author (=someone who writes a book with someone else): · Phil Duncan, co-author of 'Politics in America'
also reporter American someone whose job is to write articles for newspapers or magazines: · She works as a journalist on the Sunday Times.financial/sports etc journalist: · After he retired from football, he became a sports reporter for the Gazette.· Lee is one of the highest-paid financial journalists in the country.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYADJECTIVES/NOUN + writer Wynford was an architect of genius. They held a number of music workshops and seminars.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· She was a very good writer.· Dr Johnson was already a great writer at the age of thirty-five.
· The movie is based on a story by science-fiction writer Phillip K. Dick.
(=someone who writes articles and books about a subject)· This region of Europe does not excite many travel writers.
(=someone who writes a lot of books etc)· He was a prolific writer of everything from poems to essays.
· She now works as a freelance writer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=a piece of equipment for putting music, information etc on CDs)· By 2002, CD burners were standard hardware for home computers.
· He is best known as a comedy writer for radio and television.
(=someone who writes or performs things that make you laugh)
· Paintings by contemporary artists covered the walls.
(=someone who writes books or articles about cooking)· He's a cookery writer for a newspaper.
(=someone who writes stories about crimes, especially murder)
Wynford was an architect of genius.· an award-winning travel writer
They held a number of music workshops and seminars.· There have been plenty of good writers who were also Christians.· Dunne is such a good writer that he can make almost anything interesting.· Some of our best writers are on the staff of the magazine, and one of them is Associate Editor Anne Boston.· Robert Reich and James Fallows are two of the best writers who worry over the new class division in the country.· A wry and entertaining tale, typical of this good writer.· Plus you can bump into some of the nation's best writers in the refrigerated section of Wild Oats.· Or could it simply be that many of our best satirical writers were themselves college lecturers?· We make good music, we have good writers.
· We were talking about great writers.· However, Freud was a great writer and a compelling personality.· That did not make him a great writer, nor did that fact prevent his holding an important literary post.· Reich is a big thinker and a great writer.· But a great writer just the same.· He was then buried amongst many other great writers of the past in Westminster Abbey.
· Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment.· This view was then copied by later writers.· No later writer could afford to ignore so well-placed a source.· It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her.· Only very late writers tell us anything about his other astronomical views.· No such distinction was known in the middle ages and it is essentially the creation of later administrators and writers.· These twelve variables have subsequently been reduced to four main headings by later writers.· Early on he makes a general point, one taken up by later writers, that there is a relativity about identity.
· He believes that a writer will often find himself through exposure to some other writer.· He felt no competitiveness with other writers and was encouraging to people younger than himself.· This theoretical division into two cultures is graphically illustrated by Nizan in his practical criticism of other writers.· We might even discover that he uses a lower number of abstract nouns than other writers of his time.· A possible scenario for self-publishers is this: You have been meeting with other writers for some time.· But Kemp has no space for theory, nor inclination to show Wells in his time, one among other writers.· This point has been emphasised by other writers.· But if he was scrupulously careful about his own expenditure, he was generous to other poets and writers.
· Kohler remains a senior writer with the company.
· This is, indeed, a valuable example of a young writer thinking on paper.· He always had the time. Young writers sought him out.· In this capacity, his wisdom and tolerance gave much encouragement to young writers.· The character of the young black writer appears only sporadically.· There are lots of new, younger writers, who know how to please the playgoer.· Designed like a board game, your choices move a young writer through his career.· Elean:You are also involved in the training of young writers, why do you do this?· Dream Lab allows young writers to work with professional playwrights.
NOUN· It is doubtful whether fiction writers are public benefactors, or their publishers philanthropists.· We received the term courtesy of William Gibson, a science fiction writer.· But, as we can now see, it was like being a science fiction writer really.· How many up-and-coming fiction writers are former aerospace engineers?· Unbelievable, but true. 25 year old, Charles Cockell is no science fiction writer.· No psychiatry nonsense, no mumbo jumbo about theories and the other paraphernalia of the fiction writer.· That was the dream of solar sailing, so beloved of both scientists and science fiction writers.· The earliest appearance in print seems to be in a 1950 story by the science fiction writer Eric Frank Russell.
VERB· So I began consciously journeying towards becoming a writer.· Arax became a writer and journalist.· He became a writer after he failed as an entrepreneur, and kept being tempted back into speculative schemes.· I wanted to become a writer, a singer, and an actress, and fall in love and marry.· Soon after her marriage Charlotte Despard became a writer of popular novels.· In retrospect, I find it natural that Fanshawe should have become a writer.· Her Kensington home became a meeting-place for writers and artists, particularly those associated with the Yellow Book.· A.. The longer I do it the more my own personality becomes evident to the writers.
· Everything that one writes should impart the writer.· Whether they are primarily travellers who write or writers who travel does not matter.· Branwell wanted to be a writer, so he wrote to writers; but not many of them wrote back.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a failed actor/writer etc
- Perhaps she is a budding artist, a future novelist.
- A trained psychiatric nurse, he is the current artist in residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
- Well, towards the end of 1990 I was appointed artist in residence at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool.
WORD FAMILYnounwriterwritingrewriteverbwriterewriteadjectivewritten ≠ unwritten
1someone who writes books, stories etc, especially as a job: She’s one of my favourite writers. a science-fiction writerwriter on a well-known writer on American musicwriter of a writer of children’s stories2someone who has written something or who writes in a particular way: He’s always been a sloppy writer.writer of the writer of the previous message on this topicCOLLOCATIONSADJECTIVES/NOUN + writera good/great writer· She was a very good writer.· Dr Johnson was already a great writer at the age of thirty-five.a fiction/science-fiction/mystery writer· The movie is based on a story by science-fiction writer Phillip K. Dick.a travel/history/sports etc writer (=someone who writes articles and books about a subject)· This region of Europe does not excite many travel writers.a prolific writer (=someone who writes a lot of books etc)· He was a prolific writer of everything from poems to essays.a freelance writer· She now works as a freelance writer.THESAURUSwriter someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: · Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.· a writer for the Independent on Sunday magazine· I always wanted to be a writer.author someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: · Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie.· The author will be signing copies of his book.· He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’.novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: · Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.· the romantic novelist Barbara Cartlandpoet someone who writes poems: · a class studying the works of modern American poetsplaywright someone who writes plays: · Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in English history.dramatist someone who writes plays – used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: · the great French dramatist, Molierescriptwriter (also screenwriter) someone who writes plays for films or television: · Three or four scriptwriters work on the show.blogger someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: · a travel blogger· a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English