logographer

noun

lo·​gog·​ra·​pher

lōˈgägrəfə(r)

plural -s

: a prose writer in ancient Greece

Word History

Etymology

Greek logographos prose writer (from log- + -graphos writer, from graphein to write) + English -er

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