Word Meanings - FICTIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A writer of fiction. Lamb.

WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
FICTIONIST
A writer of fiction. Lamb.
FICTION
An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
WRITERSHIP
The office of a writer.
FICTIONAL
Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
UNDERWRITER
One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
NEWS-WRITER
One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.
TYPEWRITER
1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument.