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writer

/ˈraɪtə(r)/noun

उच्चारण राइटर

लेखक, लेखिका

Basic word

noun
  1. 1

    [C]

    a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles; a person who has written a particular thing

    लेखक, लेखिका

    • a famous writer
    • The writer signed copies of her new novel at the fair.
    • He is a well-known writer of detective stories.
    + 1 more example
    • Who is the writer of this poem?

    Synonyms author novelist essayist columnist scribe

    Opposite reader

◇Word family
write verb
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wri·ter

“Collocations, idioms and sayings

Writer's block (being unable to think of what to write).

Idiom 'writer's block' (क्या लिखें यह न सोच पाना)।

✓In the exam

One-word substitution

One-word substitution, asked often: a person who writes novels is a novelist; poems a poet; plays a dramatist or playwright; articles for newspapers a journalist or columnist; another person's life story a biographer; their own life story an autobiographer; a person who writes for another person who takes the credit a ghostwriter.

One-word substitution अक्सर पूछा जाता है: उपन्यास लिखने वाला novelist; कविताएँ poet; नाटक dramatist या playwright (नाटककार); अख़बारों के लेख journalist या columnist; किसी और की जीवनी biographer; अपनी आत्मकथा autobiographer; किसी दूसरे के लिए लिखने वाला जो श्रेय दूसरे को दे ghostwriter।