Usually means: Creator of original written content.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word author:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. author: Merriam-Webster
  2. author: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. author: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. author: Collins English Dictionary
  5. author: Vocabulary.com
  6. Author, author, author: Wordnik
  7. author: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. author: Wiktionary
  9. author: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. author: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. author: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Author, author: Dictionary.com
  13. author: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. author: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Author (bicycles), Author (company), Author (disambiguation), Author, The Author (play): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Author: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. author: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. author: Rhymezone
  19. author: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. author: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. author: FreeDictionary.org
  22. author: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. author: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. author: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. author: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. author: Merriam-Webster

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. author: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. author-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. author: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. author: Netlingo
  2. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  3. author: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. author: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. author: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. author: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Author: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. author: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See authored as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.
noun:  Someone who writes books for a living.
noun:  (obsolete, criminal law) Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
noun:  (archaic) One's authority for something: an informant.
verb:  (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) To create a work as its author.

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