Definitions
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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Examples
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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, ...
Flopping Aces 2010
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As Obama is not what we call a wordsmith, it has been suggested it was written for him by William Ayers.
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As Obama is not what we call a wordsmith, it has been suggested it was written for him by William Ayers.
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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.
James Franco's debut short story collection, ÂPalo Alto Michael Lindgren 2010
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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.
James Franco's debut short story collection, 'Palo Alto' Michael Lindgren 2010
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CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama’s wordsmith is moving to the West Wing.
Obama’s Speechwriter Moves to the White House - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama’s wordsmith is moving to the West Wing.
Obama’s Speechwriter Moves to the White House - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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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.
Hell and Earth-Elizabeth Bear « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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"Webster the wordsmith was a compiler, not a prescriber," he writes at one point.
A Definitive American Life Barton Swaim 2011
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Put on your "Metaphoric Goggles" and view each version as a professional rhetorician or "wordsmith" would.
reesetee commented on the word wordsmith
"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