authoress
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- noun
- /ˈɔːθəˌrɛs/
- Offensive
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autora (arcaico, ofensivo)
- We caught up with the authoresses recently at New York Comic-Con, but try as we might, we couldn't suss out any spoilers.
Examples
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The celebrated American authoress!
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She's a New York authoress.
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Before she got married to Peter Mensch in 2011, she was Louise Bagshawe, an authoress of novels like Career Girls, but also an active member of the Conservative Party.
Blog text (4) -
Once, Papa told me that she had been an authoress, yet surely none of her stories could rival the stew pot simmering at the back of the guests' imaginations.
Fiction book (2000) -
She admired the authoress for her insightful novels that explored complex themes.
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The school invited a famous authoress to speak about her writing process and inspiration.
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Many readers consider Virginia Woolf a groundbreaking authoress in modern literature.
Synonyms
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A person who creates books, articles, or stories
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2.0
A person who writes books or articles
A woman who writes for newspapers or magazines
A person who writes books, articles, or reports
A person who writes for newspapers, magazines, or books
How Gendered
- Offensive
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Authoress comes from author plus the ending -ess, which marks a 'female' person, the same ending you see in actress. So authoress originally meant a woman who writes, though today many people prefer the neutral word author.