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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wordsmith
noun
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▪ 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 have been willing to accept a real theatre wordsmith had one been available.
▪ It's tempting to wonder what he'd make of wordsmiths all around re-writing his work; mellowed out or gobsmacked?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wordsmith

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.

Wiktionary
wordsmith

n. One who uses words skillfully. vb. To apply craftsman-like skills to word use.

WordNet
wordsmith

n. a fluent and prolific writer

Wikipedia
WordSmith (software)

WordSmith Tools, in short, WordSmith (which means 'word' and 'creator') is a paid software package primarily for linguists, in particular for work in the field of corpus linguistics. It is a collection of modules for searching patterns in a language. The software handles many languages.

Wordsmith (TV series)

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 videotapes recorded from the airings by teachers or other school district personnel. The host is Bob Kupa'a Smith.

Wordsmith (disambiguation)

A wordsmith is a writer.

Wordsmith may refer to:

  • WordSmith (software), a collection of corpus linguistics tools
  • Wordsmith (TV series), an instructional television series
  • Wordsmith.org, a linguistics website founded by Anu Garg
  • Kenny Wordsmith, a blogging pseudonym for children's book author and illustrator Ashok Rajagopalan
Wordsmith (musician)

Wordsmith aka Anthony Parker is a Singer-songwriter and a philanthropist based from Baltimore, United States. He is the CEO of NU Revolution Entertainment.

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.