word-vault/dist/data/cards/wr/writer.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "writer",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person whose job is writing books, stories, articles, etc.",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Who's your favourite writer?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a travel/cookery/science fiction writer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **freelance** feature **writer** for ‘Time’ magazine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "writers of poetry/fiction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She left her job to become a full-time writer."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is a prominent writer on civil liberties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Is political culture, as some writers have suggested, in a state of collapse?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spoke about her experiences as a woman writer of colour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The writer drew on his own experience to write this script."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As one twelfth-century writer put it, English wine could be drunk only with closed eyes and through clenched teeth."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Unlike many writers of the period, she is not preoccupied with morality."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a chance for aspiring writers to get their work published"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a popular writer who has written over forty books"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a very prolific crime writer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a writer of children's books"
                },
                {
                    "text": "early writers in sociology"
                },
                {
                    "text": "her career as a writer"
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the best writers in journalism today"
                },
                {
                    "text": "one of the greatest writers of all time"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He joined the newspaper in 1923 as an editorial writer."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing", "Jobs"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["celebrated", "distinguished", "eminent"],
                "writer + verb": [
                    "write something",
                    "argue something",
                    "describe something"
                ],
                "preposition": ["as writer", "writer for", "writer of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "a group of writers",
                    "a writer’s group",
                    "a writer in residence"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who has written a particular thing",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the writer of this letter"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I used to be a prolific **letter writer**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The present writer has no experience in microbiology."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a writer to the letters column"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the writer of this article/​computer program"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a person who forms letters in a particular way when they are writing",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a messy writer"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈraɪtə(r)/",
                "audio": "wr/writer/writer__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈraɪtər/",
                "audio": "wr/writer/writer__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English wrītere, of Germanic origin."
}