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AUTHORSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
Example:
the authorship of the theory is disputed
Synonyms:
authorship; paternity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("authorship" is a kind of...):
creation; foundation; founding; initiation; innovation; instauration; institution; introduction; origination (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new)
Derivation:
author (someone who originates or causes or initiates something)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of creating written works
Example:
it was a matter of disputed authorship
Synonyms:
authorship; composition; penning; writing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("authorship" is a kind of...):
verbal creation (creating something by the use of speech and language)
Domain member category:
script (write a script for)
write out; write up (put into writing; write in complete form)
annotate; footnote (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)
ghost; ghostwrite (write for someone else)
co-author (be a co-author on (a book, a paper))
author (be the author of)
draft; outline (draw up an outline or sketch for something)
adopt; dramatise; dramatize (put into dramatic form)
write copy (write for commercial publications)
rewrite (rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose)
dash off; fling off; knock off; scratch off; toss off (write quickly)
paragraph (write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher)
profile (write about)
write about; write of; write on (write about a particular topic)
compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "authorship"):
adoxography (fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects)
drafting (writing a first version to be filled out and polished later)
dramatisation; dramatization (conversion into dramatic form)
fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)
historiography (the writing of history)
metrification (writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition))
novelisation; novelization (converting something into the form of a novel)
redaction (the act of putting something in writing)
lexicography (the act of writing dictionaries)
versification (the art or practice of writing verse)
Derivation:
author (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
