Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

auteurship

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-teur-ship
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The role or status of auteur.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Mr. Ferrell and Mr. McKay are not involved in the writing of this latest venture — they are executive producers — but the mark of their auteurship is all over it, chiefly in the sweet, quaint life-lesson of an idea that if you go around acting like an entitled idiot, your entitled idiocy is going to rain a plague of misfortune on you, one felt chiefly in downgrades to real estate and audiovisual systems."

Etymology

From auteur + -ship.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: auteur

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does auteurship mean?: The role or status of auteur.
Where does auteurship come from?: From auteur + -ship.

How to pronounce auteurship

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