Do you know Waleed Al-Husseini, the Palestinian essayist who is threatened with death by Muslim fanatics?
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Essayist
//ˈɛ.seɪ.ɪst//
Synonyms for "essayist" (61 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (30)
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5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 24 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- assagista noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 散文家 noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Czech
1 entries- esejista noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Dutch
1 entries- essayist noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Esperanto
1 entries- eseisto noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Finnish
1 entries- esseisti noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
French
1 entries- essayiste noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Galician
1 entries- ensaísta noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
German
2 entries- Essayist noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- Essayistin noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Greek
1 entries- δοκιμιογράφος noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Icelandic
1 entries- ritgerðari noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Irish
2 entries- aistí noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- scríbhneoir aistí noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Italian
1 entries- saggista noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Japanese
1 entries- エッセイスト noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Persian
1 entries- مقالهنویس noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Polish
2 entries- eseista noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- eseistka noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Portuguese
1 entries- ensaísta noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Romanian
2 entries- eseist noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- eseistă noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Russian
4 entries- очерки́ст noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- очерки́стка noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- эссеи́ст noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- эссеи́стка noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Spanish
1 entries- ensayista noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Swedish
2 entries- essäförfattare noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- essäist noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Turkish
2 entries- deneme yazarı noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- denemeci noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Ukrainian
2 entries- есеї́ст noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
- есеї́стка noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Welsh
1 entries- traethodwr noun (one who composes essays; a writer of short compositions)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Peter Englund of the Nobel Committee in Stockholm made the announcement Thursday morning, calling the novelist, essayist and playwright a "divinely gifted" storyteller.
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Mary has made a name for herself as an essayist and critic.
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Mary became famous as an essayist and critic.
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