writer(ライター)
要点作家
意味
- 作家,著者(author);記者(journalist),筆者
例文
The present writer doesn't like such a tendency.
筆者はそうした風潮を好まない。
He was acclaimed as the best writer of the year.
彼はその年の最良の作家として褒め称えられた。
It isn't clear what the writer is trying to say.
筆者が何を言おうとしているのかわからない。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
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. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).