writer
noun /ˈraɪtə(r)/
/ˈraɪtər/
- a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles, etc.
- Who's your favourite writer?
- a travel/cookery/science fiction writer
- a freelance feature writer for ‘Time’ magazine
- writers of poetry/fiction
- the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
- She left her job to become a full-time writer.
Extra ExamplesTopics Literature and writinga1, Jobsa1- As one twelfth-century writer put it, English wine could be drunk only with closed eyes and through clenched teeth.
- He is a prominent writer on civil liberties.
- Is political culture, as some writers have suggested, in a state of collapse?
- She gives talks about being a black woman writer.
- The writer drew on his own experience to write this script.
- Unlike many writers of the period, she is not preoccupied with morality.
- a chance for aspiring writers to get their work published
- a popular writer who has written over forty books
- a very prolific crime writer
- a writer of children's books
- early writers in sociology
- her career as a writer
- one of the best writers in journalism today
- one of the greatest writers of all time
- He joined the newspaper in 1923 as an editorial writer.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- celebrated
- distinguished
- eminent
- …
- write something
- argue something
- describe something
- …
- as writer
- writer for
- writer of
- …
- a group of writers
- a writer’s group
- a writer in residence
- …
- a person who has written a particular thing
- the writer of this letter
- I used to be a prolific letter writer.
Extra Examples- The present writer has no experience in microbiology.
- a writer to the letters column
- the writer of this article/computer program
- (with an adjective) a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing
- a messy writer
Word OriginOld English wrītere, of Germanic origin.