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diarist

diarist

7 5.9
A person who writes a diary regularly to record daily thoughts and events
  • noun
  • /ˈdaɪərɪst/
translation icon : escritor de diarios
  • 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.

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Examples

  • After this exposition, the diarist goes back to the events that had brought about the change in her life.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The next day the diarist burns all her mementoes, save one photograph and the rose.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Then the point of view changes, as the diarist sees herself from the outside:

    Academic text (1999)
  • Again, the diarist wishes she could find the right words to describe what she has experienced.

    Academic text (1999)
  • 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.

  • Mary Chestnut, the great diarist from South Carolina who indeed kept the most famous diary by a Southern woman.

  • Among the diarists, the majority reported keeping a diary in the past, which extended through their adolescent years.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The text ends abruptly with the diarist's reference to the morning she found a splintery leg bone among her petunias.

    Academic text (2010)
  • As a dedicated diarist, she recorded her thoughts and experiences every evening before bed.

Synonyms

writer
vsdiarist
1.0

A person who creates books, articles, or stories

focuses specifically on regularly writing personal diary or journal entries
journalist
vsdiarist
  • Archaic
4 3.0

A person who writes their daily thoughts and experiences in a diary

stresses the habitual act of writing in a diary or journal
diary keeper
vsdiarist
3.7

A person who writes in a diary regularly to record thoughts and events

is the single word form of the same idea

How Regular

diarist
7 5.9
chronicler
11 7.2
noter
6.5

Surface Forms

diarist singular
diarists plural

Morphology

diarist = diary (transparent) = diary + ist

Standard agentive formation: someone associated with or practising the activity denoted by 'diary' (i.e., writing a diary).

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.