"ghostwriter" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: ghostwriters [plural]
Etymology: ghost + writer Etymology templates: {{compound|en|ghost|writer}} ghost + writer Head templates: {{en-noun}} ghostwriter (plural ghostwriters)
  1. 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. Wikipedia link: ghostwriter, ghostwriter (disambiguation) Categories (topical): Authors, Occupations, People Synonyms: ghost writer Translations (professional writer for another person): spookskrywer (Afrikaans), negre literari [masculine] (Catalan), negre [masculine] (Catalan), 捉刀手 (zhuōdāoshǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), 代筆者 (Chinese Mandarin), 代笔者 (dàibǐ zhě) (Chinese Mandarin), neger [common-gender] (Danish), fantoma verkisto (Esperanto), kaŝita verkisto (Esperanto), haamukirjoittaja (Finnish), prête-plume [feminine, masculine] (French), nègre littéraire [masculine] (French), nègre [masculine] (French), écrivain fantôme [masculine] (French), Ghostwriter [masculine] (German), Phantomschreiber [masculine] (German), szellemíró (Hungarian), néger (Hungarian), ghostwriter [masculine] (Italian), scrittore ombra [masculine] (Italian), ゴーストライター (gōsutoraitā) (Japanese), 代作者 (daisakusha) (alt: だいさくしゃ) (Japanese), 대작자 (daejakja) (Korean), penulis siluman (Malay), ghostwriter [masculine] (Polish), murzyn [derogatory, masculine] (Polish), ghostwriter [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), negru literar [masculine] (Romanian), scriitor fantomă [masculine] (Romanian), литерату́рный негр (literatúrnyj negr) [masculine] (Russian), негр (negr) [masculine] (Russian), гостра́йтер (gostrájter) [slang] (Russian), pisac iz sjene [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), negro [masculine] (Spanish), escritor fantasma [feminine] (Spanish), spökskrivare [common-gender] (Swedish), gölge yazar (Turkish)

Noun [Polish]

IPA: /ɡɔwstˈraj.tɛr/
Rhymes: -ajtɛr Etymology: Borrowed from English ghostwriter. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|pl|en|ghostwriter|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} English ghostwriter, {{bor+|pl|en|ghostwriter}} Borrowed from English ghostwriter Head templates: {{pl-noun|m-pr}} ghostwriter m pers Inflection templates: {{pl-decl-noun-m-pr}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], ghostwriter [nominative, singular], ghostwriterzy [nominative, plural], ghostwritery [derogatory, nominative, plural], ghostwritera [genitive, singular], ghostwriterów [genitive, plural], ghostwriterowi [dative, singular], ghostwriterom [dative, plural], ghostwritera [accusative, singular], ghostwriterów [accusative, plural], ghostwriterem [instrumental, singular], ghostwriterami [instrumental, plural], ghostwriterze [locative, singular], ghostwriterach [locative, plural], ghostwriterze [singular, vocative], ghostwriterzy [plural, vocative]
  1. ghostwriter Tags: masculine, person Categories (topical): Authors, Occupations Synonyms: murzyn

Noun [Portuguese]

Forms: ghostwriters [plural]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from English ghostwriter. Etymology templates: {{ubor|pt|en|ghostwriter}} Unadapted borrowing from English ghostwriter Head templates: {{pt-noun|mfbysense|#s}} ghostwriter m or f by sense (plural ghostwriters)
  1. ghostwriter (professional writer for another person) Tags: by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine
    Sense id: en-ghostwriter-pt-noun-wvUJvzSG Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header, Portuguese masculine and feminine nouns by sense

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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}
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      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "spookskrywer"
    },
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "negre literari"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "negre"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhuōdāoshǒu",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "捉刀手"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "代筆者"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dàibǐ zhě",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "代笔者"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "neger"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "fantoma verkisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "kaŝita verkisto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "haamukirjoittaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prête-plume"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nègre littéraire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nègre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "écrivain fantôme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ghostwriter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Phantomschreiber"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "szellemíró"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "néger"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ghostwriter"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scrittore ombra"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gōsutoraitā",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "ゴーストライター"
    },
    {
      "alt": "だいさくしゃ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "daisakusha",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "代作者"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "daejakja",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "대작자"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "penulis siluman"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ghostwriter"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "murzyn"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ghostwriter"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "negru literar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "scriitor fantomă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "literatúrnyj negr",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "литерату́рный негр"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "negr",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "негр"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gostrájter",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "word": "гостра́йтер"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pisac iz sjene"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "negro"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "escritor fantasma"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "spökskrivare"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "professional writer for another person",
      "word": "gölge yazar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ghostwriter"
}

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        "singular"
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        "plural"
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        "plural"
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      "tags": [
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "ghostwriterów",
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      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "ghostwriterowi",
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        "dative",
        "singular"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ghostwriterom",
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        "dative",
        "plural"
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        "accusative",
        "plural"
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        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "ghostwriterami",
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      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "ghostwriterze",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ghostwriterach",
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        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ghostwriterze",
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  "lang_code": "pl",
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      "categories": [
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        "Polish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Polish lemmas",
        "Polish links with manual fragments",
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        "Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Polish masculine nouns",
        "Polish nouns",
        "Polish personal nouns",
        "Polish terms borrowed from English",
        "Polish terms derived from English",
        "Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Rhymes:Polish/ajtɛr",
        "Rhymes:Polish/ajtɛr/3 syllables",
        "pl:Authors",
        "pl:Occupations"
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        "ghostwriter"
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        [
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}

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        "Portuguese lemmas",
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        "Portuguese masculine nouns",
        "Portuguese nouns",
        "Portuguese nouns with multiple genders",
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        "Portuguese terms spelled with W",
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        "ghostwriter (professional writer for another person)"
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        "feminine",
        "masculine"
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}

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