Part Three

Writer Meets World

writ·er

noun ˈrī-tər

: someone whose work is to write books, poems, stories, etc.

Old English writere “one who can write, clerk; one who produces books or literary compositions,” agent noun from writan; meaning “sign-painter” is from 1837.

world

noun ˈwər(-ə)ld

the world : the earth and all the people and things on it

: a part of the world and the people and things that exist there

: human society

Old English woruld, worold “human existence, the affairs of life,” also “a long period of time,” also “the human race, mankind, humanity,” a word peculiar to Germanic languages (cognates: Old Saxon werold, Old Frisian warld, Dutch wereld, Old Norse verold, Old High German weralt, German Welt), with a literal sense of “age of man,” from Proto-Germanic wer “man” (Old English wer, still in werewolf) and ald “age”