Word Type

Noun

Proper Noun

The word "writer" can be used as noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

advertising company advertising firm house newspaper office office school unemployment office university write's block

Capable Of

ball discarded manuscripts begin writing book bone up on subject complete novel cross t's hunt for right word hunt for write word list published works look outside window while thinking master vocabulary paint word picture print written words on printer word phrase carefully word things for impact write letter write novel write novels write poems

Derived Terms

CD writer braillewriter checkwriter chequewriter cocket writer copy writer copywriter cowriter cyberwriter fanwriter food writer gagwriter ghost writer ghostwriter hackney writer hymnwriter hyperwriter inkwriter letter writer manifold writer microwriter multiwriter newswriter nonwriter playwriter psalmwriter scorewriter screenwriter scriptwriter signwriter sketchwriter skywriter slate writer songwriter space writer speechwriter sports writer sportswriter subwriter technical writer telewriter typewriter wreader writer's cramp writercraft writerdom writeress writerish writerless writerling writerly writership writress

Derived From

write

Context

historical

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

communicator creator literate literate person originator person

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

allegorist annalist aphorist authoress bard belletrist biographer blogger chronicler columnist commentator correspondent cowriter critic diarist drafter dramatist editorialist elegist encyclopedist epicist epigrammatist essayist feuilletonist fictioneer fictionist ghostwriter glossarist hack hackney writer historian hymnist idyllist journalist journo lexicographer librettist litterateur logodaedalus lyricist memoirist monodist monographer novelist obituarist pamphleteer penwoman playwright poet poetess polemicist prosaist publicist pundit reporter revuist satirist scenarist scholiast screenwriter scribbler scrivener sketchwriter songwriter sonneteer space writer speechwriter sportswriter technical writer tragedian versifier wordman wordmonger wordsman wordsmith wordster zodiographer

Type Of (IsA)

artist author communicator eloquence literate literate person literate thing person worker

Not Desires

rejection slip writer's block

Related Terms

copyeditor editor fabulist literature narrator philosopher scholar scientist storyteller write writing

Related Terms

clerk factor literary rank work write writing

Synonym Network

author

Used For

creating books magazine company to employ write book write boring life story writing advertisment writing book writing magazine article writing newpaper article writing play writing stories

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.