AUTHORSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does authorship mean? 

• AUTHORSHIP (noun)
  The noun AUTHORSHIP has 2 senses:

1. the act of creating written works

2. the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing

  Familiarity information: AUTHORSHIP used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHORSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of creating written works

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

authorship; composition; penning; writing

Context example:

it was a matter of disputed authorship

Hypernyms ("authorship" is a kind of...):

verbal creation (creating something by the use of speech and language)

Domain member category:

script (write a script for)

write out; write up (put into writing; write in complete form)

cite; reference (refer to)

annotate; footnote (add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments)

ghost; ghostwrite (write for someone else)

co-author (be a co-author on (a book, a paper))

author (be the author of)

draft; outline (draw up an outline or sketch for something)

adopt; dramatise; dramatize (put into dramatic form)

write copy (write for commercial publications)

rewrite (rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose)

dash off; fling off; knock off; scratch off; toss off (write quickly)

paragraph (write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher)

profile (write about)

write about; write of; write on (write about a particular topic)

compose; indite; pen; write (produce a literary work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "authorship"):

adoxography (fine writing in praise of trivial or base subjects)

drafting (writing a first version to be filled out and polished later)

dramatisation; dramatization (conversion into dramatic form)

fabrication; fictionalisation; fictionalization (writing in a fictional form)

historiography (the writing of history)

metrification (writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition))

novelisation; novelization (converting something into the form of a novel)

redaction (the act of putting something in writing)

lexicography (the act of writing dictionaries)

versification (the art or practice of writing verse)

Derivation:

author (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

authorship; paternity

Context example:

the authorship of the theory is disputed

Hypernyms ("authorship" is a kind of...):

creation; foundation; founding; initiation; innovation; instauration; institution; introduction; origination (the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new)

Derivation:

author (someone who originates or causes or initiates something)

 Context examples 

His second-hand ideas of authorship were wrong, for here was the proof of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have taken with fear and trembling to authorship.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If, therefore, the authorship of other works of fiction has been attributed to me, an honour is awarded where it is not merited; and consequently, denied where it is justly due.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)