authorship : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: authorship	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for authorship
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
authorship n the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" Synonym(s): writing, authorship, composition, penning the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed" Synonym(s): authorship, paternity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Authorship \Au"thorship\, n. 1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship* of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.