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Definition of 'writer'

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A person who writes, or produces literary work.
  • Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet? She’s quite a writer !
  • (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the (East India Company), who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
  • Anything that writes or produces output.
  • * 2001 , Cay S. Horstmann, ?Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals (page 715)
  • If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.

    Synonyms

    * author * See also

    Derived terms

    * copy writer * diary-writer (rel-mid3) * ghost writer * screenwriter (rel-mid3) * space writer * writer's cramp (rel-bottom)

    Similar to 'writer'

    warder, weirder, wordier, wartier, worder