essayist

[es-ey-ist]

noun

1. a writer of essays.

essayist

/ ˈɛseɪɪst /

noun

1. a person who writes essays

Word History and Origins

Origin of essayist¹

First recorded in 1600–10; essay + -ist

Example Sentences

It pounced upon the coincidence that James Joyce, the Dada poet and essayist Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin were all living in Zurich in 1917.

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Could the same be said of a disingenuous essayist?

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According to his one-time adviser, the veteran essayist and confidant of presidents Alain Minc, Macron "must now go down as the worst president of the Fifth Republic".

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Critics, including a guest essayist for the New York Times, have called his Oval Office remodel a "Gilded Rococo Nightmare".

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The author is a writing professor for Antioch University and a published essayist who lives in Los Angeles County.

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