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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishwriter,writere, fromOld Englishwrītere(“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) andġewritere(“writer; composer”), equivalent towrite +‎-er andwrit +‎-er. Cognate withIcelandicritari(“clerk, secretary”),Faroeseritari(“clerk, secretary”).

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Noun

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writer (pluralwriters)

  1. A person whowrites, or producesliterarywork; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".
    Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite awriter!
    I met some of my favourite authors at thewriters' convention.
    the presentwriter(referring to oneself as the writer)
    • 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym;Robert Burton],The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps,→OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv,page298:
      Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,asPeter de la Seine and many otherwriters affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontentedMenelaus that was ſo often freed byHelenas faire face: andhTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent.
    • 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, inRailway Magazine, page200:
      Though thewriter has striven to dwell on aspects that have passed, or are passing away, it will be apparent that many features of Midland practice have been adopted as standard for the L.M.S.R. and other railways.
  2. Anything that writes or produces output.
    • 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell,Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page715:
      If thewriter is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination wheneverprintln is called.
  3. (finance) Theseller of anoption.
  4. (historical) Aclerk of a certainrank in the service of theEast India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became afactor.
  5. (Scotland) An ordinarylegalpractitioner in Scottish country towns.
  6. (US) Apetty officer in theUnited Statesnavy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
    Synonyms:ship writer,ship's writer
  7. (slang) Agraffiti artist.
    • 2003,Jonathan Lethem,The Fortress of Solitude,Doubleday,→ISBN, page443:
      Writers were reunited with their crews, none having seen each other since back in the day, since they'd spun from teenage affiliations into lives more burdened and serious.
    • 2008,Lisa Gottlieb,Graffiti Art Styles: A Classification System and Theoretical Analysis,McFarland & Company,→ISBN, page77:
      Two aspects of style co-exist in graffiti art, as explained in chapter 2. There is awriter's personal style, and there is iconic style, or style as convention.

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Translations

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person who writes; an author

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishwrītere. Bysurface analysis,writen +‎-ere(suffix forming agent nouns).

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Noun

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writer (pluralwriters)

  1. Adraughtsman, orcopyist; one who notes down the words of another.
  2. Arecord-keeper orannalist; one who records significant events.
  3. A writer or author; one who writes.
  4. (rare) One who produces a translation.

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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishwriter.

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Noun

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writer m pers

  1. (hip-hop slang)graffiti artist
    Synonym:grafficiarz
    • 2019, chillwagon, “kwit (trailer)”‎[1]:
      To moja stara nowa szkoła, tworzę style jakwriterzy
      It's my new old school, I create style likegraffiti artists

Declension

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Declension ofwriter
singularplural
nominativewriterwriterzy/writery (deprecative)
genitivewriterawriterów
dativewriterowiwriterom
accusativewriterawriterów
instrumentalwriteremwriterami
locativewriterzewriterach
vocativewriterzewriterzy

Further reading

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  • Piotr Fliciński, Stanisław Wójtowicz, editors (2007), “writer”, inHip-Hop Słownik, Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN,→ISBN, page192
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