How do you use the word "writer" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "writer" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "writer": My friends say I'm a prolific writer, but I haven't written anything for months. In his fantasy, he imagined he was a famous writer.

Writer Meaning

/ˈɹaɪ.tə(ɹ)/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer".

nounAnything that writes or produces output.

Sentence Examples

My friends say I'm a prolific writer, but I haven't written anything for months.

In his fantasy, he imagined he was a famous writer.

She is a writer and broadcaster on environmental matters.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

author

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

A person who writes stories and poems for publication is called a ____.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

He is a famous ____ who has published several many successful and very popular novels over several ten years today.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wreyd-der.? Proto-Germanic *wrītaną Proto-West Germanic *wrītan Old English wrītan Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Old English wrītere Middle English writer English writer From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er and writ + -er. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent." — 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 6, subsection iv, page 298:

"Though the writer has striven to dwell on aspects that have passed, or are passing away, it will be apparent that many features of Midland practice have been adopted as standard for the L.M.S.R. and other railways." — 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 200:

"If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called." — 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715:

"Writers were reunited with their crews, none having seen each other since back in the day, since they'd spun from teenage affiliations into lives more burdened and serious." — 2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 443:

"Two aspects of style co-exist in graffiti art, as explained in chapter 2. There is a writer's personal style, and there is iconic style, or style as convention." — 2008, Lisa Gottlieb, Graffiti Art Styles: A Classification System and Theoretical Analysis, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 77:

Explore More A1 Vocabulary Words