English noun: authorship |
| 1. | authorship (act) the act of creating written works |
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| Samples | Writing was a form of therapy for him.
It was a matter of disputed authorship.
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| Synonyms | composition, penning, writing |
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| Broader (hypernym) | verbal creation |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | adoxography, drafting, dramatisation, dramatization, fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization, historiography, lexicography, metrification, novelisation, novelization, redaction, versification |
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| Domain category members | adopt, annotate, author, cite, co-author, compose, dash off, draft, dramatise, dramatize, fling off, footnote, ghost, ghostwrite, indite, knock off, outline, paragraph, pen, profile, reference, rewrite, scratch off, script, toss off, write, write about, write copy, write of, write on, write out, write up |
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| 2. | authorship (act) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing |
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| Samples | The authorship of the theory is disputed.
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| Synonyms | paternity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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