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say it: AW-thur-ship
authorship is a noun meaning "the act of creating written works". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of creating written works
“writing was a form of therapy for him”
“it was a matter of disputed authorship”
the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing
“the authorship of the theory is disputed”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for authorship come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.