essayist
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- noun
- /ˈɛseɪɪst/
- Literature
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ensayista
- And part of being an essayist is writing from your personal experiences.
- writer and essayist
- author and essayist
- novelist and essayist
Jin Lee is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and literary critic.
- Jin Lee is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and literary critic.
- And part of being an essayist is writing from your personal experiences.
- I mean, Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to mind, but you may or may not consider him an essayist.
- He was a novelist, A playwright, best known as a playwright, a short story writer, an essayist, as well as a poet.
- He read the list of demands at that event, and he was just a beautiful essayist throughout the entire period that very few people know about.
- But one of the ones that I often come back to is an idea that one of my my final teacher there, who was the fiction writer and essayist Charlie d'ambrosio.
Examples
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The French essayist, Michel de Montaigne, once said...
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The WNIA also helped promote the reforming activities of New England poet and essayist Helen Hunt Jackson.
Academic text (1990) -
Yeah, I want to be, like, a travel essayist.
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Did I really have the stuff it took to be an essayist?
Fiction book (2002) -
And also, I'll point to an essayist, Andrew Sullivan.
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Leonard Kriegel is an essayist and novelist who lives in New York City.
Academic text (2000) -
The author of four books, she is also a poet, reviewer, and award-winning essayist.
Academic text (2011) -
Jin Lee is an acclaimed novelist, essayist and literary critic.
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Brian Trent is a professional journalist, essayist, and novelist who lives in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Academic text (2004) -
An essayist often explores complex themes through personal reflections and critical analysis.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who creates books, articles, or stories
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2.0
A person who writes books or articles
A person who writes books or poems and loves literature
A writer of short pieces for newspapers or magazines
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Essayist comes from essay, which comes from old French essayer meaning 'to try', so an essay was originally a short 'try' at an idea. The -ist part means a person who does something, so an essayist is someone who tries out and explores ideas in writing.