coauthor

noun

co·​au·​thor (ˌ)kō-ˈȯ-thər 

variants or co-author

plural coauthors or co-authors

: one who collaborates with another person in authoring a literary or dramatic work, a document, a legislative bill, etc.

coauthors of many books and plays

the coauthors of new legislation

coauthor transitive verb

or co-author

coauthored or co-authored; coauthoring or co-authoring

… he coauthored legislation … requiring the publication on the Internet of the cost of all federal contracts, grants, and congressional "earmarks,"…

—Michael Tomasky

a co-authored book

coauthorship

(ˌ)kō-ˈȯ-thər-ˌship 

noun

or co-authorship

… accepting coauthorship on studies to which they did not significantly contribute.

—Mary Murray

Examples of coauthor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lennart Heim, another coauthor of the 2022 paper who leads compute governance work at the Centre for the Governance of AI, warned last year that the hardware cost of training one new frontier AI model could theoretically surpass the entire gross domestic product of the U.S. around the mid-2030s. —David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024

The coauthors, a group of dental and public health researchers, cautioned against overstating the oral-systemic health connection. —Lola Butcher, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

coauthor

noun

co·​au·​thor

(ˈ)kō-ˈȯ-thər

: an author who works with another author