Richard Roberts is the author of numerous books.
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Author
//ˈɔː.θə(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "author" (198 found)
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Closest matches (40)
Strong matches (59)
conceiveconceiverconstructorcopywritercraftsmancreatecreative writercreatorcriticdance criticdash offdescanterdesignerdeviserdiaristdiscourserdiscovererdisquisitordodoer
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drama criticdramatisteditorializeeffecteffectoreffectuateencyclopedistengenderengendererengineeressayistestablishexecutantexecutorexecutrixexpositorfabricatorfatherforerunnerformulatefoundfounderframerfree lancefree-lancefree-lance writergenerategestateghostghostwriteghostwritergive birth togive occasion togive origin togive rise to
Related words (99)
growerhumoristinaugurateinauguratorinditeinditerindustrialistinitiatorinnovatorinspirerinstigatorinstituteinstitutorintroducerinventorjourneymanknock offknock outliterary artistliterary craftsman
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literary criticliterary manlitterateurlogographermagazine writermakemakerman of lettersmanufacturermastermaster craftsmanmediummonographermonographistmothermovermusic criticnarratornewspapermannovelettistnovelistnovelizeoccasionoperantoperativeoperatororganizeroriginoriginateoriginatorpamphleteerparentpast masterpatriarchpenwomanperformerperpetratorplannerpoetpractitionerprecursorprepareprime moverprimum mobileprocreatorproduceproducerprose writerraiserrealizerealizerreviewerscenario writerscenaristscenarizescribescriptwriterset afloatset on footset upshapershort-story writersiresmithsourcestorytellersubjecttechnical writerthrow on papertractationword painterwordsmithworkworkerwrightwrite
Noun(3 words)
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Translations
212 translations across 89 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autore noun (originator or creator of a work)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀρχηγέτης noun (originator or creator of a work)
Arabic
3 entries- مُؤَلِّف noun (originator or creator of a work)
- مُصَنِّف noun (originator or creator of a work)
- أَلَّفَ verb (to create a work as its author)
Aragonese
2 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autora noun (originator or creator of a work)
Armenian
1 entries- հեղինակ noun (originator or creator of a work)
Asturian
1 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- avtor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- müəllif noun (originator or creator of a work)
Basque
1 entries- egile noun (originator or creator of a work)
Belarusian
2 entries- а́ўтар noun (originator or creator of a work)
- а́ўтарка noun (originator or creator of a work)
Bengali
2 entries- লেখক noun (originator or creator of a work)
- স্রষ্টা noun (originator or creator of a work)
Breton
1 entries- aozer noun (originator or creator of a work)
Bulgarian
4 entries- а́втор noun (originator or creator of a work)
- а́вторка noun (originator or creator of a work)
- творе́ц noun (originator or creator of a work)
- създавам verb (to create a work as its author)
Burmese
1 entries- စာရေးဆရာ noun (originator or creator of a work)
Catalan
2 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autora noun (originator or creator of a work)
Chechen
1 entries- яздархо noun (originator or creator of a work)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 作家 noun (originator or creator of a work)
- 作者 noun (originator or creator of a work)
Chukchi
1 entries- тэйкыткуԓьын noun (originator or creator of a work)
Czech
2 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autorka noun (originator or creator of a work)
Danish
2 entries- forfatter noun (originator or creator of a work)
- forfatte verb (to create a work as its author)
Dutch
4 entries- auteur noun (originator or creator of a work)
- schrijfster noun (originator or creator of a work)
- schrijver noun (originator or creator of a work)
- schrijven verb (to create a work as its author)
Eastern Mari
2 entries- автор noun (originator or creator of a work)
- серышоза noun (originator or creator of a work)
Esperanto
4 entries- aŭtoro noun (originator or creator of a work)
- verkinto noun (originator or creator of a work)
- aŭtori verb (to create a work as its author)
- verki verb (to create a work as its author)
Estonian
1 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
Extremaduran
1 entries- utol noun (originator or creator of a work)
Faroese
2 entries- høvundur noun (originator or creator of a work)
- rithøvundur noun (originator or creator of a work)
Finnish
4 entries- kirjoittaja noun (originator or creator of a work)
- tekijä noun (originator or creator of a work)
- kirjoittaa verb (to create a work as its author)
- luoda verb (to create a work as its author)
French
4 entries- auteur noun (originator or creator of a work)
- auteure noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autrice noun (originator or creator of a work)
- créer verb (to create a work as its author)
Galician
1 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
Georgian
1 entries- ავტორი noun (originator or creator of a work)
German
4 entries- Autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- Autorin noun (originator or creator of a work)
- Schriftsteller noun (originator or creator of a work)
- Schriftstellerin noun (originator or creator of a work)
Greek
2 entries- δημιουργός noun (originator or creator of a work)
- συγγράφω verb (to create a work as its author)
Gujarati
1 entries- લેખક noun (originator or creator of a work)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- otè noun (originator or creator of a work)
Hebrew
3 entries- יוֹצֵר noun (originator or creator of a work)
- מְחַבֵּר noun (originator or creator of a work)
- סוֹפֵר noun (originator or creator of a work)
Hindi
3 entries- प्रणेता noun (originator or creator of a work)
- लेखक noun (originator or creator of a work)
- लेखिका noun (originator or creator of a work)
Hungarian
4 entries- alkotó noun (originator or creator of a work)
- kezdeményező noun (originator or creator of a work)
- kiagyaló noun (originator or creator of a work)
- kiötlő noun (originator or creator of a work)
Icelandic
2 entries- höfundur noun (originator or creator of a work)
- rithöfundur noun (originator or creator of a work)
Ido
1 entries- skriptar verb (to create a work as its author)
Indonesian
1 entries- pengarang noun (originator or creator of a work)
Ingrian
2 entries- avtora noun (originator or creator of a work)
- tekijä noun (originator or creator of a work)
Irish
1 entries- údar noun (originator or creator of a work)
Italian
3 entries- autore noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autrice noun (originator or creator of a work)
- creare verb (to create a work as its author)
Japanese
4 entries- 作家 noun (originator or creator of a work)
- 作成者 noun (originator or creator of a work)
- 作者 noun (originator or creator of a work)
- 筆者 noun (originator or creator of a work)
Kazakh
2 entries- автор noun (originator or creator of a work)
- жазушы noun (originator or creator of a work)
Khmer
1 entries- គន្ថការ noun (originator or creator of a work)
Korean
4 entries- 글쓴이 noun (originator or creator of a work)
- 작가 noun (originator or creator of a work)
- 작자 noun (originator or creator of a work)
- 저자 noun (originator or creator of a work)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- автор noun (originator or creator of a work)
- жазуучу noun (originator or creator of a work)
Ladino
1 entries- autór noun (originator or creator of a work)
Lao
1 entries- ນັກປະພັນ noun (originator or creator of a work)
Latin
2 entries- auctor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- repertor noun (originator or creator of a work)
Latvian
2 entries- autore noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autors noun (originator or creator of a work)
Lithuanian
2 entries- autorius noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autorė noun (originator or creator of a work)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- awtor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- awtorka noun (originator or creator of a work)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Auteur noun (originator or creator of a work)
Macedonian
2 entries- автор noun (originator or creator of a work)
- авторка noun (originator or creator of a work)
Marathi
2 entries- लेखक noun (originator or creator of a work)
- लेखिका noun (originator or creator of a work)
Mongolian
2 entries- зохиогч noun (originator or creator of a work)
- зохиолч noun (originator or creator of a work)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- daner noun (originator or creator of a work)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forfatter noun (originator or creator of a work)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forfattar noun (originator or creator of a work)
Occitan
1 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
Persian
2 entries- مؤلف noun (originator or creator of a work)
- پدیدآورنده noun (originator or creator of a work)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schreftstala noun (originator or creator of a work)
Polish
2 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autorka noun (originator or creator of a work)
Portuguese
1 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
Romanian
4 entries- autoare noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- crea verb (to create a work as its author)
- scrie verb (to create a work as its author)
Russian
3 entries- а́втор noun (originator or creator of a work)
- созда́тель noun (originator or creator of a work)
- творе́ц noun (originator or creator of a work)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ùghdar noun (originator or creator of a work)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- àutor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- àutorica noun (originator or creator of a work)
- а̀утор noun (originator or creator of a work)
- а̀уторица noun (originator or creator of a work)
Slovak
4 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autorka noun (originator or creator of a work)
- napísať verb (to create a work as its author)
- písať verb (to create a work as its author)
Slovene
2 entries- avtor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- avtorica noun (originator or creator of a work)
Spanish
4 entries- autor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- autora noun (originator or creator of a work)
- escritor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- escritora noun (originator or creator of a work)
Swahili
1 entries- mwandishi noun (originator or creator of a work)
Swedish
3 entries- författare noun (originator or creator of a work)
- upphovsman noun (originator or creator of a work)
- författa verb (to create a work as its author)
Tajik
3 entries- муаллиф noun (originator or creator of a work)
- мусанниф noun (originator or creator of a work)
- нависанда noun (originator or creator of a work)
Tamil
2 entries- நூலாசிரியர் noun (originator or creator of a work)
- படைப்பாளர் noun (originator or creator of a work)
Telugu
4 entries- కర్త noun (originator or creator of a work)
- గ్రంథకర్త noun (originator or creator of a work)
- గ్రంథకారుడు noun (originator or creator of a work)
- రచయిత noun (originator or creator of a work)
Thai
2 entries- นักประพันธ์ noun (originator or creator of a work)
- ผู้เขียน noun (originator or creator of a work)
Turkish
2 entries- müellif noun (originator or creator of a work)
- yazar noun (originator or creator of a work)
Turkmen
2 entries- awtor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- ýazyjy noun (originator or creator of a work)
Ukrainian
2 entries- а́втор noun (originator or creator of a work)
- а́вторка noun (originator or creator of a work)
Uyghur
3 entries- ئاساسچى noun (originator or creator of a work)
- ئاپتور noun (originator or creator of a work)
- مۇئەللىپ noun (originator or creator of a work)
Uzbek
3 entries- avtor noun (originator or creator of a work)
- muallif noun (originator or creator of a work)
- yozuvchi noun (originator or creator of a work)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tác giả noun (originator or creator of a work)
Volapük
1 entries- lautan noun (originator or creator of a work)
Welsh
3 entries- awdur noun (originator or creator of a work)
- awdures noun (originator or creator of a work)
- awduro verb (to create a work as its author)
Yiddish
4 entries- אויטאָר noun (originator or creator of a work)
- וואָרטקינסטלער noun (originator or creator of a work)
- ליטעראַט noun (originator or creator of a work)
- מחבר noun (originator or creator of a work)
Zazaki
2 entries- nusger noun (originator or creator of a work)
- nuskar noun (originator or creator of a work)
Zhuang
1 entries- bouxsij noun (originator or creator of a work)
Sample sentences
22 total sentences available.
Dickens was the author of 'Oliver Twist'.
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The author doesn't display much talent in his book.
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Its author is little more than a college kid.
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