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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One who writes, especially as an occupation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person who understands or practises the art of writing; one who is able to write; a penman.
  2. n. One who does writing as a business; a professional scribe, scrivener, or amanuensis: used specifically in England of clerks to the former East India Company, and of temporary copying clerks in government offices; in Scotland, loosely, of law agents, solicitors, attorneys, etc., and sometimes of their principal clerks.
  3. n. A person who writes what he composes in his mind; the author of a written paper or of writings; an author in general; a literary producer of any kind: as, the writer of a letter; a writer of history or of fiction.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A person who writes, or produces literary work.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
  2. n. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author.
  3. n. A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person who is able to write and has written something
  2. n. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English, from Old English (Wiktionary)

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  • rolig Knowing that a number of Wordizens make their living as editors of one sort or another, I thought you would enjoy this delightful quote from copy-editor John E. McIntyre's blog:

    The writer: To an editor (well, to some editors), the writer is an annoying inconvenience that nevertheless makes editing possible — the chicken that must be plucked, cleaned, and butchered before it can be turned into a delightful coq au vin. But you do have some obligation to make the text resemble the work of the author, perhaps dusted off and perfumed a little, but still recognizably the author more than you. The text should be not what you would have written, but what the author would have written had he been a better writer.
    Jun 18, 2009

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