Thesaurus:writer

Thesaurus

writer

English

Noun

Sense: a person who originates text

Synonyms

• author
• penman
• writer

Hyponyms

• allegorist
• annalist
• aphorist
• authoress
• bard
• belletrist
• biographer
• blogger
• chronicler
• columnist
• commentator
• correspondent    [⇒ thesaurus]
• cowriter
• critic
• diarist
• drafter
• dramatist
• editorialist
• elegist
• encyclopedist
• epicist
• epigrammatist
• essayist
• feuilletonist
• fictioneer
• fictionist
• ghostwriter
• glossarist
• hack
• hackney writer
• historian
• hymnist
• idyllist
• journalist
• journo
• lexicographer
• litterateur
• librettist
• lyricist
• memoirist
• monodist
• monographer
• novelist
• obituarist
• pamphleteer
• penwoman
• playwright
• poet
• poetess
• polemicist
• prosaist
• publicist
• pundit
• reporter
• revuist
• satirist
• scenarist
• scholiast
• sketchwriter
• sonneteer
• speechwriter
• sportswriter
• screenwriter
• scribbler
• scrivener
• songwriter
• space writer
• technical writer
• tragedian
• versifier
• zodiographer

Sense: A skilful writer

• logodaedalus
• wordman
• wordmonger (one sense)
• wordsman
• wordsmith
• wordster

Hypernyms

• person    [⇒ thesaurus]
• creator
• originator

Various

• philosopher    [⇒ thesaurus]
• scientist    [⇒ thesaurus]
• scholar
• narrator
• storyteller
• fabulist
• editor
• copyeditor

See also

• Thesaurus:literature
• Thesaurus:write

Further reading

• “593. book” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “writer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.