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Definition of "wordsmith" []

  • A fluent and prolific writer, especially one who writes professionally. (noun)
  • An expert on words. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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  • "As Obama is not what we call a wordsmith, it has been suggested it was written for him by William Ayers."
  • "His faith in the idea that he could be considered just another aspiring wordsmith is touching, if ingenuous; even if his prose somehow turned out to be staggeringly brilliant, the critics and bloggers and readers who make up the literary establishment would rather die than admit it."