authors

[ aw-therz ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. a card game for two or more persons that is played with a 52-card pack, the object being to take the largest number of tricks consisting of four cards of the same denomination.

Word History and Origins

Origin of authors¹

1865–70, Americanism; plural of author

Example Sentences

Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.

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The Horse You Came in On Saloon, Baltimore Horse-themed bars must be bad luck for famous authors.

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The authors categorized responses that indicated a misunderstanding of possible benefit as “germs are germs” beliefs.

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And despite the good scholarship the authors have managed to retain the buoyancy and upbeat air attendant on most comics.

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Few authors write more transparently about music than Swafford, who has also penned memorable lives of Brahms and Ives.

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It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art.

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The authors of the guide-books have signally failed to discover the really interesting parts of Law-land.

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Wait until you have been really initiated into intellectual Bohemia—the clever young newspaper men and budding authors.

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The situation of Loranthus and Visvum, in the system, appears to be undetermined by authors.

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It is still known as a literary center and a number of more or less noted English authors live there at the present time.

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