writer
/ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
noun
A machine or tool used for writing, often by chording keys on a specialized keyboard (e.g. braillewriter, microwriter, stenograph).
noun
A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
noun
A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!"
- "I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention."
- "the present writer (referring to oneself as the writer)"
- "Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent."
- "Though the writer has striven to dwell on aspects that have passed, or are passing away, it will be apparent that many features of Midland practice have been adopted as standard for the L.M.S.R. and other railways."
- "If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wreyd-der.? Proto-Germanic *wrītaną Proto-West Germanic *wrītan Old English wrītan Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Old English wrītere Middle English writer English writer From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er and writ + -er. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹaɪ.təɹ/
- British English: /ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/