writer

Etymology

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.

noun

1. A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themself as "the writer".
   Has your girlfriend written you another letter already? She’s quite a writer!
   I met some of my favourite authors at the writers' convention.
   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
2. Anything that writes or produces output.
   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
3. (finance) The seller of an option.
4. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.
5. (Scotland) An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns.
6. (US) A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship.
7. (slang) A graffiti artist.
   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, 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, page 77