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| 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: | 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: | bohemian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonconformist |
| Synonyms: | artist, beatnik*, dilettante, flower child*, free spirit, gypsy, hippie*, iconoclast, writer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commentator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reporter |
| Synonyms: | analyst, announcer, correspondent, critic, interpreter, observer, pundit, reviewer, writer, annotator, expositor, sportscaster |
| Main Entry: | composer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | songwriter |
| Synonyms: | writer, melodist, serialist, singer-songwriter, songsmith, songster, tunesmith |
| Main Entry: | correspondent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person communicating in writing |
| Synonyms: | contributor, journalist, pen pal, reporter, writer, epistler, epistolarian, freelancer, gazetteer, letter writer, stringer |
| Main Entry: | journalist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who writes about factual events for a living |
| Synonyms: | announcer, columnist, commentator, contributor, correspondent, cub, editor, hack, pencil pusher*, press, publicist, reporter, scribe, writer, broadcaster, media person, newspaper person, newsperson, scrivener, stringer, television commentator |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | narrator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | storyteller |
| Synonyms: | author, chronicler, novelist, raconteur, reporter, writer, describer, teller of tales, yarn spinner |
| Main Entry: | newsman/newswoman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reporter |
| Synonyms: | anchor, announcer, columnist, correspondent, cub*, editor, foreign correspondent, interviewer, journalist, newscaster, war correspondent, writer, anchor man/woman, anchor person, copy editor, ink slinger, investigative reporter, legman/woman, newshound, newspaperman/woman, newswriter, pressman/ woman, stringer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | reporter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who informs |
| Synonyms: | anchor, announcer, columnist, correspondent, cub*, editor, interviewer, journalist, newscaster, scribe, writer, anchorperson, ink slinger, legperson, newshound, newsperson, newswriter, press person, scrivener, stringer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | columnist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | journalist |
| Synonyms: | correspondent, reporter, writer |
| Main Entry: | interpreter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | translator |
| Synonyms: | analyst, artist, commentator, critic, delegate, editor, exponent, guide, linguist, philosopher, professor, reviewer, scholar, speaker, spokesperson, writer, annotator, biographer, decoder, exegete, explicator, expositor, glossographer, paraphraser |
| Notes: | an interpreter converts speech to another language and a translator converts writing to another language |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | press |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | people or person working in communications |
| Synonyms: | columnist, correspondent, editor, fourth estate*, interviewer, journalism, journalist, magazine, media, newspaper, paper, periodical, photographer, publicist, reporter, writer, newsperson, publisher |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stylist |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | one who writes with style |
| Synonyms: | writer, classicist, impressionist, romanticist |
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