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Word entry · 6 letters

writer

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"Text creator"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/Part of speech nounSorted eirrtwStarts with WEnds with R2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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)

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Text creator6 letters
02Author of books6 letters

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