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| Main Entry: | author |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | composer of written work |
| Synonyms: | columnist, composer, creator, ghost, journalist, originator, playwright, poet, reporter, scribe, writer, biographer, essayist, ghostwriter, ink slinger, producer, prose writer, scribbler, scripter, word slinger, wordsmith, work-for-hire |
| Main Entry: | create |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | develop in mind or physically |
| Synonyms: | actualize, author, beget, bring to pass, build, coin, compose, conceive, concoct, constitute, construct, contrive, design, devise, discover, dream up, effect, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, father, forge, form, formulate, found, generate, hatch, imagine, initiate, institute, invent, invest, make, occasion, organize, originate, parent, perform, plan, procreate, produce, rear, set up, shape, sire, spawn, start, bring into being, bring into existence, cause to be, give birth to, give life to |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | creator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inventor; God |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, brain, deity, designer, founder, generator, maker, originator, prime mover, sire, begetter, framer, initiator, producer |
| Antonyms: | destroyer, destructor |
| Main Entry: | designer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creator |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, engineer, inventor, maker, originator, planner, costumier, couturier, deviser, fabricator, fashion designer, fashioner, producer |
| Main Entry: | forebearer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family predecessor |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, author, forerunner, founder, matriarch, originator, parent, patriarch, precursor, progenitor, relative, sire, ascendant, begetter, materfamilias, paterfamilias, primogenitor, procreator |
| Main Entry: | founder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who establishes an institution |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, beginner, benefactor, builder, creator, designer, forebearer, generator, inventor, maker, organizer, originator, patron, planner, prime mover*, constructor, establisher, framer, initiator, institutor |
| Notes: | founder means to sink, while flounder means to flail helplessly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fountainhead |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | principal source; person who originates |
| Synonyms: | administrator, architect, author, builder, creator, father, fountain, generator, leader, maker, mother, originator, spring, wellspring, fount, initiator |
| Main Entry: | inventor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discoverer |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, builder, creator, designer, father, founder, innovator, maker, originator, pioneer, coiner, experimenter |
| Main Entry: | narrator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | storyteller |
| Synonyms: | author, chronicler, novelist, raconteur, reporter, writer, describer, teller of tales, yarn spinner |
| Main Entry: | originator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creator |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, designer, father, founder, innovator, inventor, maker, mastermind, mother, pioneer, begetter, discoverer, initiator, producer |
| Main Entry: | parent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, source of product |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, architect, author, cause, center, creator, father, folks, forerunner, fountainhead, guardian, mother, origin, originator, progenitor, prototype, root, source, wellspring, begetter, procreator |
| Antonyms: | child |
| Main Entry: | playwright |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who writes for the theater |
| Synonyms: | author, dramatist, writer, dramaturge, dramaturgist, librettist, scenarist, scripter, tragedian |
| Main Entry: | poet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who writes expressive, rhythmic verse |
| Synonyms: | artist, author, bard, dilettante, dramatist, lyricist, maker, writer, balladist, librettist, lyrist, metrist, odist, parodist, poetaster, rhapsodist, rhymer, rimer, sonnetist, versifier |
| Main Entry: | source |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, result |
| Main Entry: | write |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put language down on paper |
| Synonyms: | address, author, autograph, commit, communicate, compose, copy, correspond, create, draft, draw up*, engross, formulate, ghost, indite, inscribe, knock off*, knock out*, letter, note, pen, print, record, reproduce, rewrite, scrawl, scribble, scribe, sign, take down, tell, transcribe, turn out, bang out, chalk*, comp, dash off, drop a line, drop a note, ink, jot down, note down, pencil, push a pencil, put in writing, scriven, set down, set forth, typewrite, write down, write up |
| Antonyms: | read |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | writer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who composes with language |
| Synonyms: | author, columnist, contributor, correspondent, critic, dramatist, editor, journalist, novelist, poet, reporter, scribe, biographer, essayist, freelancer, ghostwriter, newspaper person, person of letters, screenwriter, scribbler, scripter, stenographer, stringer, wordsmith |
| Antonyms: | reader |
| Main Entry: | patriarch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male head |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, architect, author, chief, creator, elder, father, founder, generator, grandfather, head, inventor, maker, master, old man, originator, ruler, senior, sire, gaffer, graybeard, paterfamilias |
| Antonyms: | matriarch |
| Main Entry: | prime mover |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause |
| Synonyms: | author, creator, drive, instigator, initial force, motivator, motive force, mover, power source, primum mobile |
| Main Entry: | myself |
| Part of Speech: | pronoun |
| Definition: | me |
| Synonyms: | personally, I personally, me personally, the author, the speaker, the writer, yours truly |
| Main Entry: | novelist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fiction writer |
| Synonyms: | author, storyteller, writer, fictionist, narrative writer, prose writer, writer of novels |
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