diarist
- noun
- /ˈdaɪərɪst/
- In the morning, we started at the Geffrye Museum... where we visited the cabinet of curiosities of John Evelyn... the 17th century diarist.
- current diarists
- female diarists
- male diarists
She was a lifelong diarist and being able to read these was it was a privilege.
- She was a lifelong diarist and being able to read these was it was a privilege.
- This book is called the Princess Diarist, which is great because she played Princess Leia, Princess Slayer, am I right?
Examples
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After this exposition, the diarist goes back to the events that had brought about the change in her life.
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The next day the diarist burns all her mementoes, save one photograph and the rose.
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Then the point of view changes, as the diarist sees herself from the outside:
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Again, the diarist wishes she could find the right words to describe what she has experienced.
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The owner had been a meticulous diarist, but the volumes were, of course, private.
Fiction book (2001) -
She was a lifelong diarist and being able to read these was it was a privilege.
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Mary Chestnut, the great diarist from South Carolina who indeed kept the most famous diary by a Southern woman.
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Among the diarists, the majority reported keeping a diary in the past, which extended through their adolescent years.
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The text ends abruptly with the diarist's reference to the morning she found a splintery leg bone among her petunias.
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As a dedicated diarist, she recorded her thoughts and experiences every evening before bed.
Synonyms
A person who creates books, articles, or stories
A person who writes their daily thoughts and experiences in a diary
A person who writes in a diary regularly to record thoughts and events
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Etymology
The word diarist comes from diary, which comes from the old Latin root dies meaning 'day', and you can see the same idea in the word daily. So a diarist is someone who writes about their 'days' and records what happens regularly.