ghostwriter

Noun

Meaning

a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ghost author composer journalist poet producer reporter penman scribbler critic biographer playwright novelist scribe correspondent
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Antonyms

destroyer audience conclusion conservative amateur reader
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Hypernyms

author writer

Examples

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator. Bob Kane

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. Molly Ringwald

It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. Robert Harris (novelist)

In 1922 Ford (through his ghostwriter Crowther) said of his 1913 assembly line: I believe that this was the first moving line ever installed. Source: Internet

Now a clinical psychologist, Mary Trump writes that she once served as a ghostwriter for her uncle. Source: Internet

For more than fifteen years she would be the indispensable ghostwriter for the exasperating, obsessive, but nontheless charming “Tiger.” Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ghostword ghostwort ghostwrite ghostwriting ghostwritten ghostwrote