writer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
    author.
  2. noun a person who is able to write and has written something

WordNet

Writ"er noun
Etymology
AS. writere.
Definitions
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
    They [came] 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 of novels.
    This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile. Shak.
  3. A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

Webster 1913