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AUTHOR Synonyms

There are 11 synonyms of the word author. (exact relations)
There are 17 hypernyms of the word author. (close relations)

Best Alternative Words for AUTHOR

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writer
nounn
noun

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

• a person who is able to write and has written something

novelist
nounn
noun

• one who writes novels

penman
nounn
noun

• informal terms for journalists

scribe
verb, nounv, n
noun

• informal terms for journalists

• French playwright (1791-1861)

• someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

• a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut

verb

• score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking

scrivener
verb, nounv, n
noun

• someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

wordsmith
nounn
noun

• a fluent and prolific writer

artist
nounn
noun

• a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

creator
nounn
noun

• a person who grows or makes or invents things

• terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

generator
nounn
noun

• an apparatus that produces a vapor or gas

• engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction

• someone who originates or causes or initiates something

• an electronic device for producing a signal voltage

source
nounn
noun

• the place where something begins, where it springs into being

• a document (or organization) from which information is obtained

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• a facility where something is available

• a person who supplies information

• someone who originates or causes or initiates something

• (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system

• anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies

• a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

verb

• get (a product) from another country or business

• specify the origin of

fabulator
nounn
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Best Hypernyms For AUTHOR

Here is a list of related hypernyms for author, these are close relations that fall within the same topic. Most relevant words are highlighted and in order.
Words (17)
biographer communicator compose essayist indite journalist litterateur maker novelist pen playwright poet screenwriter scribe shaper write writer

Alternatives for WRITER

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