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essayist

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Literature, Occupations
es·say·ist /ˈeseɪ-ɪst/ noun [countable]  ALBOsomeone who writes essays giving their ideas about politics, society etc 论说文[散文,小品文等]作者
Examples from the Corpus
essayistWilliam Cobbett, the nineteenth-century essayist, perhaps has done more than anyone to influence our feelings about the rural.The esteemed poet and ecological essayist has lived here with his family for 25 years.Numbers of novelists, poets, essayists and artists had early work printed by provincial presses.The prodigious essayist was pushing deadline on a script for a movie that actor Bill Murray may do.Cyberspace, says essayist and lyricist John Perry Barlow, is where conversations are conducted when two people talk on the telephone.William Hazlitt, the essayist, grew up here.The essayist and physician Havelock Ellis once suggested that thieves might be recognised by their low-lying ears and small heads.
es·say·ist nounChineseSyllable
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essayist
essayist /ˈeseɪ-əst, ˈeseɪ-ɪst/ noun [countable]
someone who writes essays giving their ideas about politics, society etc


es·say·istBrE /ˈeseɪɪst/ 🔊NAmE /ˈeseɪɪst/ 🔊 nouna person who writes essays to be published 论说文(或小品文)作者