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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, result |
| Main Entry: | mastermind |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan and direct |
| Synonyms: | author, organize, think up |
| Main Entry: | maker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creator |
| Synonyms: | author, builder, composer, constructor, inventor, manufacturer, originator, producer |
| Main Entry: | write |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put language down on paper |
| Synonyms: | address, author, autograph, bang out, chalk, commit, communicate, comp, compose, copy, correspond, create, dash off, draft, draw up, drop a line, drop a note, engross, formulate, ghost, indite, ink, inscribe, jot down, knock off, knock out, letter, note, note down, pen, pencil, print, push a pencil, put in writing, record, reproduce, rewrite, scrawl, scribble, scribe, scriven, set down, set forth, sign, take down, tell, transcribe, turn out, typewrite, write down, write up |
| Antonyms: | read |
| Main Entry: | writer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who composes with language |
| Synonyms: | author, biographer, columnist, contributor, correspondent, critic, dramatist, editor, essayist, freelancer, ghostwriter, journalist, newspaper person, novelist, person of letters, poet, reporter, screenwriter, scribbler, scribe, scripter, stenographer, stringer, wordsmith |
| Antonyms: | reader |
| Main Entry: | patriarch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male head |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, architect, author, chief, creator, elder, father, founder, gaffer, generator, grandfather, graybeard, head, inventor, maker, master, old man, originator, paterfamilias, ruler, senior, sire |
| Antonyms: | matriarch |
| Main Entry: | prime mover |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause |
| Synonyms: | author, creator, drive, initial force, instigator, motivator, motive force, mover, power source, primum mobile |
| Main Entry: | novelist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fiction writer |
| Synonyms: | author, fictionist, narrative writer, prose writer, storyteller, writer, writer of novels |
| Main Entry: | dramatist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | playwright |
| Synonyms: | author, dramaturge, writer |
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