writer
Use Writer in a sentence
tər noun
1.
a person engaged in writing books, articles, stories, etc., especially as an occupation or profession; an author or journalist.
2.
a clerk, scribe, or the like.
3.
a person who commits his or her thoughts, ideas, etc., to writing: an expert letter writer.
4.
(in a piece of writing) the author (used as a circumlocution for “I,” “me,” “my,” etc.): The writer wishes to state….
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Writer
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a person who writes books, articles, etc, esp as an occupation |
| 2. | the person who has written something specified |
| 3. | a person who is able to write or write well |
| 4. | a scribe or clerk |
| 5. | a composer of music |
| 6. | (Scot) a legal practitioner, such as a notary or solicitor |
| 7. | Writer to the Signet (in Scotland) a member of an ancient society of solicitors, now having the exclusive privilege of preparing crown writs |
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Example sentences
It is in thirteen books, and represents the labour and observation of some twenty years of the writer's life.
Writer tells about growing up sharing a room with her grandfather.
Each year the park will choose either a poet or a prose writer for the residency.
Finally, the desperate editor sent an equally desperate illustrator to search out the writer.
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