Meaning & use
cowriter
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Meanings
nouncountable
A person who writes a book, song, script, or article together with another person.
Grammar: Countable: use 'a cowriter' for one person and 'cowriters' for two or more.
Patterns
- cowriter of something
- cowriter on something
- someone's cowriter
She thanked her cowriter for helping shape the final chapter.
The two were cowriters on the hit song and shared the award.
He works as a cowriter for a television comedy series.
nouncountablecomputing
A piece of software that helps someone compose text, especially by suggesting words or sentences.
Grammar: Often used before another noun, as in 'a cowriter tool'; countable when it names the program itself.
Patterns
- an AI cowriter
- a cowriter tool
- use a cowriter
The app acts as a cowriter, suggesting the next sentence as you type.
Many students now draft essays with an AI cowriter.
Word forms
| plural | cowriters |
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Common combinations
- songwriting cowriter
- His songwriting cowriter came up with the chorus.
- work as a cowriter
- She works as a cowriter on several podcasts.
- credit someone as a cowriter
- The studio credited him as a cowriter on the film.
- cowriter of a book
- He is the cowriter of a popular cookbook.
- AI cowriter
- The AI cowriter finished the paragraph in seconds.
Synonyms and how they differ
- collaborator
- Much broader: a collaborator can work with you on any project, not only writing.
- coauthor
- Nearly the same, but usually used for books and academic papers rather than songs or scripts.
- co-writer
- The hyphenated spelling is also common and means exactly the same thing.
Word family
Commonly confused: cowriter or cowriter?
cowriter vs cowriter
Do not confuse with 'cowriter' the hyphenated form 'co-writer'; both are correct, but pick one spelling and stay consistent in a document.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'cowriter' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Cowriter' is a countable noun, so it follows 'the' or 'a' and names a person: 'the cowriter of the musical.' Option 2 wrongly uses it as a past-tense verb, and option 4 wrongly adds -s as if it were a verb.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “cowriter”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.