ghostwriter en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
Etymology
From ghost + writer.
Meanings
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A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.
Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work.
Ghostwriters, typically the faceless forces behind many books by famous non-writers, are now becoming more visible, with celebrities openly teaming up with high-profile professionals.
2021 April 13, Cady Lang, “How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good”, in TIME, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2021:But “Unhumans,” an anti-democratic screed that Posobiec co-wrote with the professional ghostwriter Joshua Lisec, comes with endorsements from some of the most influential people in Republican politics, including, most significantly, vice-presidential candidate JD Vance.
2024 August 5, Michelle Goldberg, “JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2024:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ghost writer | alternative | lexicographic | |
| ghostwriters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Descendants
ゴーストライター · Ghostwriter · ghostwriter · гостра́йтер · ghostwriter
Translations (40)
af spookskrywer (professional writer for another person) · ru негр (professional writer for another person) · cmn 捉刀手 (professional writer for another person) · sv spökskrivare (professional writer for another person) · fr prête-plume (professional writer for another person) · es negro (professional writer for another person) · hu néger (professional writer for another person) · ca negre (professional writer for another person) · eo kaŝita verkisto (professional writer for another person) · de Ghostwriter (professional writer for another person) · ru литерату́рный негр (professional writer for another person) · pl murzyn (professional writer for another person) · hu szellemíró (professional writer for another person) · cmn 槍手 /枪手 (professional writer for another person) · tr gölge yazar (professional writer for another person) · ja ゴーストライター (professional writer for another person) · ro scriitor fantomă (professional writer for another person) · fi haamukirjoittaja (professional writer for another person) · ms penulis siluman (professional writer for another person) · cmn 代筆者 /代笔者 (professional writer for another person) · eo fantoma verkisto (professional writer for another person) · ru гостра́йтер (professional writer for another person) · fr écrivain fantôme (professional writer for another person) · sh pisac iz sjene (professional writer for another person) · pt ghostwriter (professional writer for another person) · fr nègre littéraire (professional writer for another person) · ja 代作者 (professional writer for another person) · da neger (professional writer for another person) · pl ghostwriter (professional writer for another person) · it negro letterario (professional writer for another person) · de Phantomschreiber (professional writer for another person) · it ghostwriter (professional writer for another person) · it scrittore fantasma (professional writer for another person) · es escritor fantasma (professional writer for another person) · it scrittore ombra (professional writer for another person) · ko 대작자 (professional writer for another person) · fr nègre (professional writer for another person) · ro negru literar (professional writer for another person) · ca negre literari (professional writer for another person) · id penulis bayangan (professional writer for another person)