Other forms: wordsmiths
A wordsmith is somebody skilled at using words well. A fine wordsmith, the wordsmith's craft, wordsmith the draft.
It treats writing as a trade with tools, which is the whole point of the -smith. As a verb it means to polish a text line by line, and in offices to wordsmith something is often a way of avoiding the real disagreement.
1nounwordsmithSomebody skilled at using words well.
“The company hired a wordsmith to write clever slogans for its adverts.”
wordsmith is a writer.
Word plus smith, on the pattern of blacksmith and goldsmith.
The noun is derived from word + smith. The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA