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

That’s the subject of recent research by Dr. Nathan Walter, associate professor of media psychology at Northwestern University, and two coauthors. —Matt Villano, CNN, 19 June 2024

What could Vision Zero look like in Indy? Barth and his coauthors are working on a Vision Zero proposal, with plans to present it at the city-county council’s meeting July 8. —Nadia Scharf, The Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2024

Last month, five coauthors and I published an article demonstrating an additional linkage between climate change and a variety of recent extreme weather events. —Michael E. Mann, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2017

Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, is a coauthor. —Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 27 May 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