Noun
ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters)
- 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.
2021 April 13, Cady Lang, “How Celebrity Memoirs Got So Good”, in Time: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.
Translations
professional writer for another person
- Afrikaans: spookskrywer
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Catalan: negre literari m, negre (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 捉刀手 (zhuōdāoshǒu), 代筆者/代笔者 (dàibǐ zhě)
- Danish: neger (da) c
- Esperanto: fantoma verkisto, kaŝita verkisto
- Finnish: haamukirjoittaja (fi)
- French: prête-plume (fr) m or f, nègre littéraire (fr) m, nègre (fr) m, écrivain fantôme (fr) m
- German: Ghostwriter (de) m, Phantomschreiber m
- Hungarian: szellemíró, néger (hu)
- Italian: ghostwriter (it) m, scrittore ombra m, scrittore fantasma m, negro letterario m (offensive)
- Japanese: ゴーストライター (ja) (gōsutoraitā), 代作者 (だいさくしゃ, daisakusha)
- Korean: 대작자 (daejakja)
- Malay: penulis siluman
- Polish: ghostwriter (pl) m, murzyn (pl) m (derogatory)
- Portuguese: ghostwriter m or f
- Romanian: negru literar m, scriitor fantomă m
- Russian: литерату́рный негр (ru) m (literatúrnyj negr), негр (ru) m (negr), гостра́йтер (ru) (gostrájter) (slang)
- Serbo-Croatian: pisac iz sjene m
- Spanish: negro (es) m, escritor fantasma f
- Swedish: spökskrivare (sv) c
- Turkish: gölge yazar (tr)
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɔwstˈraj.tɛr/
- Rhymes: -ajtɛr
- Syllabification: ghost‧wri‧ter
Noun
ghostwriter m pers (female equivalent ghostwriterka)
- ghostwriter (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)
- Synonym: murzyn
Declension
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ghostwriter |
ghostwriterzy/ghostwritery (deprecative) |
genitive |
ghostwritera |
ghostwriterów |
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ghostwriterowi |
ghostwriterom |
accusative |
ghostwritera |
ghostwriterów |
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ghostwriterem |
ghostwriterami |
locative |
ghostwriterze |
ghostwriterach |
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ghostwriterze |
ghostwriterzy |
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Declension of ghostwriter