Other forms: songwriters
A songwriter is somebody who writes the words or music of songs. A jobbing songwriter.
Many of the best-known songs were written by people who never performed them. A songwriter earns from the writing every time a song is played, which outlasts any performance.
1nounsongwriterSomebody who writes the words or music of songs.
“He worked as a songwriter for twenty years before singing anything himself.”
songwriter is a person.
Song plus writer, on the same pattern as playwright and screenwriter.
From song + writer.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA