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wordsmith
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Word definitions for wordsmith in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And their personal therapy group can now be swelled by the addition of Thom Yorke, the wordsmith and frontman of Radiohead. ▪ I've been a wordsmith since my hand could hold a pen. ▪ It's a matter for conjecture whether he would ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wordsmith is a thirty-part instructional television series about the English language. It is meant to help students expand their vocabulary through analyzing the parts of English words. It is meant for classroom use, either through direct broadcast or through ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1896, from word (n.) + smith (n.). There is a "Mrs. F. Wordsmith" in the Detroit City Directory for 1855-56, but perhaps this is a typo.
Usage examples of wordsmith.
I always found it a pleasure to work with him, even when I was a near-unknown, for he understood very well the labor that writers endure in creating their books and gave even aspiring wordsmiths both credit and approval.
FORRY RHO DAN replies: If there is any word in this world that wordsmith Ellison hates, loathes, detests & abominates, it is "sci-fi," so rash reader Graham, prepare to be dangled by your participle over a pit of split infinitives until your gerund becomes positively putative, when Horrible Harlan learns of your heinous employment of the egregious neologism.
Ever since Steve's 'confession', the old wordsmith had used his formidable powers to cloud Cadillac's perception in the same way he had fudged Commander Hartmann's thought processes prior to the attack on the wagon-train.
Best of all, the two wordsmiths, who thought they were such wise guys, would be totally shafted.