songwriter

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songwriter

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From song + writer.

noun songwriters

A musician who composes songs; especially writing the song's lyrics and/or creating a melody or a tune for the song. We are now collaborating with a famous songwriter.
Similar: cleffer, tunesmith

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: songster, ballad maker, song, composer, performer, author, complainant, perpetrator, composing, compositeur, singer-songwriter, lyricist, songmaker, tunester, songwright, hymnwriter

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noun someone who writes the lyrics and usually the music of songs

Português	compositor, compositora
Français	auteur-compositeur, autrice-compositrice, auteure-compositrice
Deutsch	Songwriter, Liedermacher
Ελληνικά	τραγουδοποιός tragoudopoiós
Română	compozitor
Русский	пе́сенник pésennik, а́втор те́кста пе́сен ávtor téksta pésen, а́втор пе́сен ávtor pésen
עברית	משורר meshorér

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Chicago

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@misc{songwriter_2026,
  title = {songwriter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/songwriter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}