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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A collaborating or joint author.
  • transitive verb To be a collaborating or joint author of.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a writer who collaborates with others in writing something.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An author who collaborates with another to write something.
  • verb To write something in collaboration with another author.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a writer who collaborates with others in writing something

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Examples

  • Else Frenkel-Brunswik was a social psychologist who is best known as coauthor of The Authoritarian Personality.

    Else Frenkel-Brunswik. 2009

  • Best-known as the coauthor of the best-sellingLeft Behind pulp novel series, which readies the average American for the “rapture” and then for Armageddon, he spoke of Iraq as “a focal point of end-time events.”

    'God Is Not Great' 2007

  • But now Peps, his musical helpmate, the dog he had called the coauthor of Tannhaser, was dying.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • But now Peps, his musical helpmate, the dog he had called the coauthor of Tannhaser, was dying.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • But now Peps, his musical helpmate, the dog he had called the coauthor of Tannhaser, was dying.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • But now Peps, his musical helpmate, the dog he had called the coauthor of Tannhaser, was dying.

    The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002

  • That June, Jerome Corsi, the man best known as the coauthor of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, took to the Internet to sound the alarm about a new threat being advanced by the very man he had helped to reelect: “Quietly but systematically the Bush administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football fields wide, through the heart of the U.S.,” he wrote on the website for the conservative weekly Human Events.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

  • Next week, Random House will ship to stores 500,000 copies of the $85 book, whose "coauthor" is veteran writer Joseph E. Persico.

    Powell On The March 2008

  • I do not agree with the conclusions attributed to my name, and in no sense did I "coauthor" anything on your website.

    Archive 2008-05-01 CC 2008

  • I do not agree with the conclusions attributed to my name, and in no sense did I "coauthor" anything on your website.

    More Lies From The Heartland Institute Lindsay Stewart 2008

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