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n. The writer of a book, article, or other text.

n. One who practices writing as a profession.

n. One who writes or constructs an electronic document or system, such as a website.

n. An originator or creator, as of a theory or plan.

n. God.

v. Usage Problem To assume responsibility for the content of (a published text).

v. To write or construct (an electronic document or system): authored the company's website.

n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.

n. Someone who writes books for a living; a bookwright.

n. I, me. used in academic articles as first-person pronoun.

v. To create a work as its author.

n. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

n. One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.

n. The editor of a periodical.

n. An informant.

v. To occasion; to originate.

v. To tell; to say; to declare.

n. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; he to whom something owes its origin; originator; creator; efficient cause: as, God is the author of the universe.

n. Cause: applied to things.

n. The original composer of a book or writing of any kind, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.

n. [Often used elliptically for the literary production itself: as, the statement occurs in Pliny and other ancient authors.]

n. An editor: as, the author of the Gentleman's Magazine.

n. A person who authorizes a statement; an authority; an informant.

n. In Scots law, one from whom a title to property is derived either by inheritance or otherwise; especially, one from whom title is derived by purchase or otherwise than by way of descent.

To occasion; effect; do.

To be authority for; vouch for.

n. plural A game of cards played with a special pack bearing the names of authors and their works.

n. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

v. be the author of

n. someone who originates or causes or initiates something

"The author and the minister did their parts in the ordinary pursuit of their vocations; but the _author_ did his part impersonally and indirectly, whilst the _minister_ did his part personally and face to face."

authored    authoring    authors   

author's proof   

authority    authorization    authorisation    auteur   

creator    originator    informant    occasion    originate    tell    say    declare    encore    subcreator   

rother   

Books   

writer    teacher    scholar    father    person    book    reader    editor    member    hero