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Definition of writer noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

writer

noun
 
/ˈraɪtə(r)/
 
/ˈraɪtər/
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  1. 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.
    see also staff writer
    Extra Examples
    • He is a prominent writer on civil liberties.
    • Is political culture, as some writers have suggested, in a state of collapse?
    • She spoke about her experiences as a woman writer of colour.
    • The writer drew on his own experience to write this script.
    • As one twelfth-century writer put it, English wine could be drunk only with closed eyes and through clenched teeth.
    • 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.
    Topics Literature and writinga1, Jobsa1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • celebrated
    • distinguished
    • eminent
    writer + verb
    • write something
    • argue something
    • describe something
    preposition
    • as writer
    • writer for
    • writer of
    phrases
    • a group of writers
    • a writer’s group
    • a writer in residence
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  2. 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
  3. (with an adjective) a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing
    • a messy writer
  4. Word OriginOld English wrītere, of Germanic origin.
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