Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally.
- n. An expert on words.
Wiktionary
- n. One who uses words skillfully.
- v. To apply craftsman-like skills to word use.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a fluent and prolific writer
Etymologies
- word + smith (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Flyovercountry @wordsmith: Investor's Business Daily poll, conducted in 2006. wordsmith @Flyovercountry #32: My further point was that the acts of Muslim terror, ...”
“As Obama is not what we call a wordsmith, it has been suggested it was written for him by William Ayers.”
“His faith in the idea that he could be considered just another aspiring wordsmith is touching, if ingenuous; even if his prose somehow turned out to be staggeringly brilliant, the critics and bloggers and readers who make up the literary establishment would rather die than admit it.”
The Washington Post: James Franco's debut short story collection, ÂPalo AltoÂ
“For England’s Queen Elizbath I, Prometheus Club playwrights Will Shakespeare and Kit Marley risk their lives to keep her safe and on the throne; Faerie Queen Mab’s only wordsmith is Kit who crosses the veil between the two realms, but has other supporters too.”
Hell and Earth-Elizabeth Bear « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
“CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama’s wordsmith is moving to the West Wing.”
Obama’s Speechwriter Moves to the White House - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“Webster the wordsmith was a compiler, not a prescriber," he writes at one point.”
“Put on your "Metaphoric Goggles" and view each version as a professional rhetorician or "wordsmith" would.”
“Campbell didn't seem to find it troubling or ironic that an American had been imported to help a Brit sell himself to Britain, or that Blair inhabits a home lived in by the greatest "wordsmith" of all, Winston Churchill.”
Newsweek: Living Politics: Will The Next Churchill Please Stand Up
“Iain Dale is more a wordsmith which is why it's a good blog.”
“Resist the urge to say you will "wordsmith" your list of New Year's resolutions rather than write one.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wordsmith’.
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word phrases
to have a look how word is used
and the plurala word, a word or two, a couple of words, word-artist, word base, word-based, word-bate, word battle, word-bearer, word-beat, word-blind, word blindness and 299 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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Words to live by
and my mantras
faith, God, Buddha, Muhammad, laughter, simplicity, hope, gratitude, Jesus, science, theology, agnosticism and 16 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Writer, Writer!
columnist, contributor, novelist, poet, wordsmith, stringer, freelancer, ghostwriter, journalist, correspondent, essayist, speechwriter and 99 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Units Of Language
Word:
-a unit of language consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.sulk, promenade, skulk, idle, subsequently, moody, paroxysm, felony, anent, generic, hallucinogen, synaesthesia and 215 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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good words
words that are mostly fun to say or just lovely
undulate, voluptuous, whimsy, parse, dank, cerulean, peen, traipsing, listless, coup de grace, reconnoiter, mercurial and 499 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wordsmith.
reesetee "It is one of the livelier paradoxes of the English-speaking theater today that its two most dazzling wordsmiths are incurably suspicious of the language they ply with such flair." -- "Language, the Muse That Provokes Stoppard and Albee," New York Times, 2/18/08 Feb 20, 2008