journalistn.
/ˈdʒəːnəlɪst/, /ˈdʒəːnl̩ɪst/, U.S. /ˈdʒərnl̩əst/ 1. One who earns his or her living by editing or writing for a public journal or journals.
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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun]
gazetteer1611
newsmaker1648
diurnalist1649
diurnaller1661
gazette-writera1678
journalist1693
journalier1714
couranteer1733
magazine-writer1787
diarian1800
hack1803
pressman1818
print journalist1965
journo1967
newsperson1973
Bigfoot1980
society > communication > journalism > journalist > [adjective]
journalist1693
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 78 Epistle-Writer, or Jurnalists, Mercurists.
1710 J. Toland Refl. Sacheverell's Serm. 16 They [the Tories] have one Lesley for their Journalist in London, who for Seven or Eight Years past did, three Times a Week, Publish Rebellion.
1812 L. Hunt in Examiner 31 Aug. 545/1 The congratulations of friends and brother-journalists.
1898 Times 18 Oct. 13/5 The writer is a ‘newspaper woman’—which is, she tells us, ‘the preferred American substitute for the more polite English term “lady journalist”’.
2. One who journalizes or keeps a journal.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > keeper of journal
journalist1712
diarist1818
journalizer1837
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 323. ¶2 My following Correspondent..is such a Journalist as I require... Her Journal..is only the Picture of a Life filled with a fashionable kind of Gaiety and Laziness.
1775 W. J. Mickle Diss. Lusiad App. (R.) The force..is thus..described by Hernan Lopez de Castaneda, a contemporary writer, and careful journalist of facts.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Journalist, the writer of a journal or diary.
1848 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. ; and in mod. Dicts.
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