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, ...
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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"Webster the wordsmith was a compiler, not a prescriber," he writes at one point.
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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