penman

penman

noun

Definition of PENMAN

1

a person who creates a written work <the prolific penman of dozens of horror stories>

Synonyms litterateur (or litt{eacute}rateur), pen, penman, scribe, scrivener, writer

Related Words auteur, belletrist (also belle-lettrist), stylist, wordsmith; coauthor, coscenarist, cowriter; ghostwriter, hack, hatchet man, scribbler, wordmonger; biographer, hagiographer; autobiographer, memoirist, memorialist; fabulist, fictioneer, fictionist, novelist, romancer, storyteller; essayist, pamphleteer, satirist; dramatist, playwright, scenarist, screenwriter, scriptwriter; prosaist, prosateur, proser; bard, poet, rhymer, versifier; blogger, columnist, journalist, newspaperman, paragrapher, reporter, sportswriter

Antonyms nonauthor

2

one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts <an essay on Jacob Shallus, the penman who inked the United States Constitution>

Synonyms amanuensis, calligrapher, copyist, penman, scrivener