| author | |
| 1. n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition. | |
| The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author. | |
| 2. n. (with definite article: "the author") I, me. used in academic articles instead of a first-person pronoun. | |
| Have you read any Corinthian authors? | |
| 3. n. Someone who writes books for a living. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant. | |
| 5. v. (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author. | |
