Acrostic vs. Author

Acrosticnoun

A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.

Acrosticnoun

A particular kind of word puzzle: its solutions form an anagram of a quotation, and their initials often form its author.

Acrosticnoun

A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

Acrosticnoun

A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Acrosticnoun

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

Acrosticnoun

a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across

Acrosticnoun

verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message

Acrosticnoun

a poem, word puzzle, or other composition in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.

Acrostic

An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. The word comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς, from Ancient Greek ἄκρος and στίχος .

Authornoun

The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.

Authornoun

(with definite article: "the author") I, me. used in academic articles instead of a first-person pronoun.

Authornoun

Someone who writes books for a living.

Authornoun

(obsolete) One's authority for something: an informant.

Authorverb

To create a work as its author.

Authornoun

The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.

Authornoun

One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.

Authornoun

The editor of a periodical.

Authornoun

An informant.

Authorverb

To occasion; to originate.

Authorverb

To tell; to say; to declare.

Authornoun

writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Authornoun

someone who originates or causes or initiates something;

Authorverb

be the author of;

Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is also considered a writer. More broadly defined, an author is and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.