English Dictionary

author

/ˈɔː.θə/

noun

The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition. / Someone who writes books for a living. / (obsolete, criminal law) Principal.

The author of the book is a renowned novelist.

意味（1）

The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.

The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.

意味（2）

Someone who writes books for a living.

意味（3）

(obsolete, criminal law) Principal.

Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the authors of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise.

意味（4）

(obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.

Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]