songwriter
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song·writ·er
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Definition of songwriter
: a person who composes words or music or both especially for popular songs
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Other Words from songwriter
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Examples of songwriter in a Sentence
an award-winning singer and songwriter
he's both a singer and a songwriter
Recent Examples on the Web
Again and again, songwriters-as-voyagers remix rather than totally ditch what’s come before. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, "The Highwomen’s Joyful Country-Music Rewrites," 6 Sep. 2019 Grammy-winning songwriter LaShawn Daniels passed away earlier this week following a fatal car crash in South Carolina. — Essence, "Grammy-Winning Songwriter LaShawn Daniels Dead At 41," 5 Sep. 2019 And that would be my description of a songwriter’s job. — Longreads, "The Story of Country Music’s Great Songwriting Duo," 3 Sep. 2019 His mother, Mattie Della Shaw Baker, was a jazz singer; his father, John Lewis Nelson, who went by Prince Rogers, was a musician and a songwriter. — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, "The Book of Prince," 2 Sep. 2019 For the majority of Norman, his spare piano and acoustic guitar arrangements allow Del Rey to channel the spirits of timeless weird-girl singer-songwriters from Joni Mitchell to Fiona Apple. — Judy Berman, Time, "Review: Norman F---ing Rockwell! Is Lana Del Rey's Darkest—And Greatest—Album Yet," 30 Aug. 2019 After the massive, almost inexplicable success of the Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, this summer movie season saw a trio of films paying homage in a variety of ways to some of the biggest singer-songwriters in the world. — Marcus Jones, EW.com, "Blinded by the Light," 29 Aug. 2019 Plenty of songwriters, like Lorde and David Byrne, immediately licensed grand rights, which allow songs to be performed in a dramatic work. — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, "How Broadway's 'Moulin Rouge!' Got the Rights to 'Torn,' 'Don't Speak' & More Pop Smashes," 23 Aug. 2019 One of a small handful of female songwriters in the 1980s, Fleming received a Poet’s Award along with Rodney Crowell and Billy Joe Shaver. — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, "It's Ladies' Night! Miranda Lambert, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood and More Shine at ACM Honors," 22 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'songwriter.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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songwriter
noun
English Language Learners Definition of songwriter
: a person who writes the words or music to songs
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