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单词 essayist
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Definition of essayist in English:

essayist

noun ˈɛseɪɪstˈɛseɪəst
  • A person who writes essays, especially as a literary genre.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Plutarch wrote in his native Greek and was a prolific essayist, philosopher, biographer, and historian.
    • The novelist and essayist Thomas Mann was one of Nazism's most penetrating critics.
    • However, it is mostly as an essayist and letter writer that she excelled and put to effective use her fiery spirit as a rebel, social activist and reformer.
    • Last summer, Nicholson Baker, novelist and literary essayist, struck again at America's libraries.
    • Susan Sontag is one of America's best known and respected essayists and novelists.
    • Bard Cole is an essayist and short-story writer living in Tuscaloosa.
    • If there's a literary precursor, it's the English 17th century essayist Sir Thomas Browne.
    • Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott, to take the two most obvious examples, are brilliant critics and essayists, with prose voices as original and as pleasing as their poetic ones.
    • By the late 1960s she had acquired a strong reputation as an essayist and a novelist.
    • Poets, essayists, dramatists, novelists, and artists of the 1920s became increasingly concerned with depicting the lives of African Americans.
    • The second view, that globalisation is about to end, has been propounded by John Ralston Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist.
    • There are prominent modern literary authors, essayists, poets, and painters.
    • Aldous Huxley was an essayist and novelist whose reputation reached its peak in the 1920's.
    • John Updike is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.
    • Many poets, novelists, historians, essayists, and writers flooded the market with their literary works.
    • Macaulay was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, biographer and correspondent, whose life was a complex mixture of public and private.
    • He was quick to point out that though he was a great essayist, Azorín was a poor novelist.
    • It's just that Orwell is the greatest of all such essayists - few writers have ever become so much the conscience of their time.
    • African American essayists, historians, novelists, playwrights, and poets have found in John Brown both a symbol of sacrifice and a touchstone of commitment to the cause of black freedom.
    • The noted essayist Dr. Robert Coles wrote an essay about our book, so they were calling to check facts with me.
    Synonyms
    writer, man of letters, woman of letters, wordsmith
 
 

Definition of essayist in US English:

essayist

nounˈɛseɪəstˈesāəst
  • A person who writes essays, especially as a literary genre.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The novelist and essayist Thomas Mann was one of Nazism's most penetrating critics.
    • Susan Sontag is one of America's best known and respected essayists and novelists.
    • By the late 1960s she had acquired a strong reputation as an essayist and a novelist.
    • Bard Cole is an essayist and short-story writer living in Tuscaloosa.
    • Macaulay was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, biographer and correspondent, whose life was a complex mixture of public and private.
    • There are prominent modern literary authors, essayists, poets, and painters.
    • Plutarch wrote in his native Greek and was a prolific essayist, philosopher, biographer, and historian.
    • Many poets, novelists, historians, essayists, and writers flooded the market with their literary works.
    • Poets, essayists, dramatists, novelists, and artists of the 1920s became increasingly concerned with depicting the lives of African Americans.
    • However, it is mostly as an essayist and letter writer that she excelled and put to effective use her fiery spirit as a rebel, social activist and reformer.
    • Last summer, Nicholson Baker, novelist and literary essayist, struck again at America's libraries.
    • It's just that Orwell is the greatest of all such essayists - few writers have ever become so much the conscience of their time.
    • Aldous Huxley was an essayist and novelist whose reputation reached its peak in the 1920's.
    • African American essayists, historians, novelists, playwrights, and poets have found in John Brown both a symbol of sacrifice and a touchstone of commitment to the cause of black freedom.
    • John Updike is a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.
    • The second view, that globalisation is about to end, has been propounded by John Ralston Saul, a Canadian essayist and novelist.
    • The noted essayist Dr. Robert Coles wrote an essay about our book, so they were calling to check facts with me.
    • He was quick to point out that though he was a great essayist, Azorín was a poor novelist.
    • Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott, to take the two most obvious examples, are brilliant critics and essayists, with prose voices as original and as pleasing as their poetic ones.
    • If there's a literary precursor, it's the English 17th century essayist Sir Thomas Browne.
    Synonyms
    writer, man of letters, woman of letters, wordsmith
 
 
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