from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally.
noun An expert on words.
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noun One who uses words skillfully.
verb To apply craftsman-like skills to word use.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a fluent and prolific writer
Etymologies
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word + smith
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Flyovercountry @wordsmith: Investor's Business Daily poll, conducted in 2006. wordsmith @Flyovercountry #32: My further point was that the acts of Muslim terror, ...
His faith in the idea that he could be considered just another aspiring wordsmith is touching, if ingenuous; even if his prose somehow turned out to be staggeringly brilliant, the critics and bloggers and readers who make up the literary establishment would rather die than admit it.
His faith in the idea that he could be considered just another aspiring wordsmith is touching, if ingenuous; even if his prose somehow turned out to be staggeringly brilliant, the critics and bloggers and readers who make up the literary establishment would rather die than admit it.
For England’s Queen Elizbath I, Prometheus Club playwrights Will Shakespeare and Kit Marley risk their lives to keep her safe and on the throne; Faerie Queen Mab’s only wordsmith is Kit who crosses the veil between the two realms, but has other supporters too.
"It is one of the livelier paradoxes of the English-speaking theater today that its two most dazzling wordsmiths are incurably suspicious of the language they ply with such flair." -- "Language, the Muse That Provokes Stoppard and Albee," New York Times, 2/18/08
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"It is one of the livelier paradoxes of the English-speaking theater today that its two most dazzling wordsmiths are incurably suspicious of the language they ply with such flair." -- "Language, the Muse That Provokes Stoppard and Albee," New York Times, 2/18/08
February 21, 2008