coauthor

[ koh-aw-ther, koh-aw- ]

noun

1. one of two or more joint authors. author.

verb (used with object)

1. to write in joint authorship.

coauthor

/ kəʊˈɔːθə /

noun

1. a person who shares the writing of a book, article, etc, with another

verb

1. tr to be the joint author of (a book, article, etc)

Word History and Origins

Origin of coauthor¹

First recorded in 1860–65; co- + author

Example Sentences

In multiple surveys conducted by Mason and her coauthor Nathan Kalmoe, this large, bipartisan minority said violence was at least a little bit justified — particularly if their party lost the 2020 election.

From FiveThirtyEight

What’s more, the paper’s coauthors said, the models are so large and take in so much data, they are extremely difficult to audit and test, so some of this bias may go undetected.

From Fortune

Gebru and her coauthors refer to a 2019 paper from Emma Strubell and her collaborators on the carbon emissions and financial costs of large language models.

From MIT Technology Review

Strategically choosing a male coauthor instead of a female one might never have been an option.

From Nautilus

He’s a coauthor of the rice cereal study at the University of Sydney in Australia.

From Science News For Students

My job as her coauthor, and more importantly, as her mother, is to let her be herself.

From The Daily Beast

Orozco is also the coauthor, with Evangelina Hernández, of From Heaven to Hell in a Day (Del Cielo al Infierno en un Día).

From The Daily Beast

But pull it off he did (with the help of coauthor Benjamin Whitmer).

From The Daily Beast

She is the coauthor of the 2002 book The Mind and the Brain and the author of the 2007 book Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain.

From The Daily Beast

She is the coauthor of Sarah From Alaska: The Sudden Rise and Brutal Education of a New Conservative Superstar.

From The Daily Beast