Synonyms of the word

ghostwriter

• n. A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person.

author

• n. The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
• n. Someone who writes books for a living.
• n. The works of an author or authors.
• v. (chiefly US) To create a work as its author.

ghost

• n. (dated) The spirit; the soul of man.
• n. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition;…
• n. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering.
• n. A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of…
• n. An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused…
• n. A ghostwriter.
• n. (Internet) An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying…
• n. (computing) An image of a file or hard disk.
• n. (theater) An understudy.
• n. (espionage) A covert (and deniable) agent.
• n. The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
• n. (video games) An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players…
• n. A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
• n. (attributive, in names of species) White or pale.
• n. (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
• n. (attributive) Abandoned.
• n. (attributive) The remains of.
• n. (attributive) Perceived or listed but not real.
• n. (attributive) Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
• n. (attributive) Substitute.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition.
• v. (obsolete) To die; to expire.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To ghostwrite.
• v. (nautical) To sail seemingly without wind.
• v. (computing) To copy a file or hard drive image.
• v. (graphical user interface) To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
• v. (Internet, transitive) To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
• v. To appear without warning; To move quickly and quietly; to slip.
• v. to kill.
• v. to break up with someone without warning or explanation (see ghosting).

writer

• n. A person who writes, or produces literary work.
• n. (historical) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a…
• n. Anything that writes or produces output.