What Does Writing Copy Mean?

When you’re writing content for your website and trying to improve your visibility, you constantly hear people talking about writing ‘copy’ for a page or blog post, or someone saying that they write copy
But what does it mean to write copy?
What does it mean to be a copy writer?
We know writing copy is something that copywriters do (it’s obvious in the name), but when we’re constantly bombarded with the idea that a website should have original content that hasn’t been published before, why call it copy?
Copy has the connotations of duplication and repeating something that has already been done. To answer this question, we need to first look at the origin of the word.