Word Direct Answers

What does "author" mean?

Author: One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

Additional senses

  1. 2.The editor of a periodical. [Obs.]
  2. 3.An informant. [Archaic] Chaucer.
  3. 4.To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.
  4. 5.To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.] More of him I dare not author. Massinger.

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