'Essayist' definitions:
Definition of 'essayist'
From: WordNet
noun
A writer of literary works [syn: essayist, litterateur]
Definition of 'Essayist'
From: GCIDE
- Essayist \Es"say*ist\ (?; 277), n. A writer of an essay, or of essays. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'essayist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- descanter,
- diarist,
- discourser,
- disquisitor,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- encyclopedist,
- expositor,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- inditer,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- magazine writer,
- man of letters,
- monographer,
- monographist,
- music critic,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- pamphleteer,
- penwoman,
- poet,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- storyteller,
- technical writer,
- tractation,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer