AUTHOR'S NAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does author's name mean? 

• AUTHOR'S NAME (noun)
  The noun AUTHOR'S NAME has 1 sense:

1. the name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work

  Familiarity information: AUTHOR'S NAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTHOR'S NAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

author's name; writer's name

Hypernyms ("author's name" is a kind of...):

name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)

Holonyms ("author's name" is a part of...):

by-line; credit line (a line giving the name of the writer of a story or article)