Meaning of author | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
2. Former spelling of Autor which is no longer standard
3. The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship.
   US
4. perpetrator of a crime
5. One that creates, founds, or originates:architect, creator, entrepreneur, father, founder, inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch.
6. Someone who writes books for a living.
7. the writer of a book, article, play etc. He used to be a well-known author but his books are out of print now. outeur, skrywer كاتِب، مُؤلِّف автор autor autor der/die Autor(in) forfatter; skribent συγγραφέαςautor; autora kirjanik, autor نویسنده؛ مولف tekijä auteur/-eure מחבר लेखक autor, pisac szerző pengarang (rit)höfundur autore, autrice 著者 작가 autorius autors penulis auteurforfatter, skribentautor لیکونکی، مولف autor autor автор autor, -ka avtor autor/autorka författare ผู้เขียน yazar 作者 ав...
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8. Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
   obsolete
9. the state or fact of being an author. outeurskap تَأليف، كَون الشَّخْص كاتِباً авторство autoria autorství, spisovatelství die Autorschaft forfatterskab η ιδιότητα του συγγραφέα autoría kirjanikuamet, autorsus نویسندگی؛ نگارش kirjailijana olo profession d'écrivain כְּתִיבַת ספָרִים कर्तृव्य autor szerzőség profesi mengarang, kepengarangan ritstörf professione di scrittore 著述業 원작자임 autorystė autorība penulisan auteurschapforfatterskap autorstwo لیکنه، تحریر autoria profesiune de scriitor автор...
10. One's authority for something: an informant.
    archaic
11. The writer of a book, article, or other text.
12. The creator or cause of anything.
    figuratively
13. One who writes or constructs an electronic document or system, such as a website.
14. An originator or creator, as of a theory or plan.
15. Author God.
16. Usage Problem To write or be the author of (a published text).
    Usage Problem
17. To write or construct (an electronic document or system): authored the company's website.
18. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who composes a book, article, or other written work.

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Examples

“The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.”

“Have you read any Corinthian authors?”

“This paper has three authors.”

“Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.”

“During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant[…]”

“The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.”

“The author named on the copyright registration for the Android robot is Google Inc.”

“We hear […]of fratricidal murders, and stern reprisals on their authors.”

“Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the authors of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise.”

“Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd^([sic]) not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]”

“'Wanting the hat,' continues my author, Kirstie, whom I but haltingly follow, for she told this tale like one inspired, 'wanting guns, for there wasna twa grains o' pouder in the house, wi' nae mair weepons than their sticks into their hands, the fower o' them took the road.”

[T]here wasn't two grains of powder in the house, with no more weapons than their sticks into their hands, the four of them took the road.

“The other, standing nearly head-on toward the hunters, had not proved so good a mark, and though every spear struck not one entered the great heart. For a moment the huge bull stood trumpeting in rage and pain, casting about with its little eyes for the author of its hurt.”

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