Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - writer

(writers) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A writer is a person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job. Turner is a writer and critic. ...detective stories by American writers. ...novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux. N-COUNT: oft supp N 2. The writer of a particular article, report, letter, or story is the person who wrote it. No-one is to see the document without the permission of the writer of the report... N-COUNT: usu with supp