Writer Person Noun ˈraɪtə(R ˈraɪtər Favourite Travel/Cookery/Science Fiction

• who's your favourite writer?
• a travel/cookery/science fiction writer
• a freelance feature writer for ‘time’ magazine
• writers of poetry/fiction

writer

1. a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles, etc.
• SEE ALSO staff writer
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/staff-writer
• 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 Examples

• 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.
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. a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing
• a messy writer

Word Origin

• Old English wrītere, of Germanic origin.