AUTEUR Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

auteur

noun

Definition of auteur

as in writer

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nonauthor

as in director

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Recent Examples of auteur But this just feels like a Spielberg auteur film to me. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026 The auteur, of course, has written and directed several classic films, beginning with Reservoir Dogs in 1992. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 3 June 2026 The company unveiled the collaboration on its website with a video of the auteur using Flux to storyboard scenes, which involves mocking up shots before filming. — Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2026 The project reflects a strong auteur and LGBTQ+ aligned slate touching on taboo subjects. — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 14 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for auteur

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Noun

Information for this article was contributed by Sally Abou AlJoud and staff writers of The Associated Press.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2026
Tung Cheng-yu, CEO of Mirror Fiction, said the award was designed to encourage writers and introduce promising literary properties to potential investors.

— Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of writer

Noun

Ballard was Newsom’s communications director from 2007 to 2010, when the outgoing governor was mayor of San Francisco.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
Anna Saavedra serves as the director of the Center for Civic Society within the University of Southern California Schaeffer Institute for Public Policy and Government Service.

— Ismar Volić, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of director

Noun

With help from stylist Law Roach, Zendaya wore the same butter-yellow, brown and white Lanvin string bikini top and matching low-rise, wide-leg pants Berry wore to the film’s New York premiere.

— Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Tracee Ellis Ross just proved that celebrities don’t need stylists to slay a red carpet.

— Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of stylist

Noun

For those who experienced his rise in real time (and, frankly, many at SoFi probably had, based on their millennial look), Jay has been a pop impresario, a cultural touchstone who helped graft hip-hop culture onto the mainstream.

— Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026
The cultural notables in the room — including painters Richard Nugent and Romare Bearden, poet Arna Bontemps and theater impresario Abram Hill — speak up for art as the Renaissance’s engine, remembering gifted colleagues no longer around.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of impresario

Noun

This proud wordsmith did not seem ready for his words to be used against him.

— Luke Jones, Vanity Fair, 5 Nov. 2026
Not even as skilled a wordsmith as Sorkin and an actor as in control of his own talents as Whitford can offer a new take of villainy interesting enough to spur some newfound, good-faith reconsideration after all these years.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of wordsmith

Noun

The plot, which stage director Adam Cioffari has moved to the present day, is about a small Italian opera company’s rehearsal gone wrong due to a titanic clash of egos.

— Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2026
New movie about Bay Area legend Writer, filmmaker and stage director Luis Valdez, who spent much of his life in the South Bay, is the subject of an award-winning movie that’s screening in local theaters.

— Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 30 July 2026

Definition of stage director

Noun

Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.

— Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021

Definition of litterateur

Noun

Previous hosts, including Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan, are major oil producers.

— Khalil Hamra, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
In palpitating trip-hop and wind-tunnel big beat, the producer’s lovestruck second album seeks a softer, more romantic home on the dancefloor.

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of producer

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