Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who keeps a diary.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who keeps a diary.
Wiktionary
- n. One who keeps a diary.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who keeps a diary.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who keeps a diary or journal
Etymologies
- diary + -ist (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I did it a few weeks ago, but it's only because their regular diarist is away.”
“Many of the “facts” related by the diarist are almost certainly fictions, but they are trivial fictions, portraying military misconduct of a low level kind, far distant from Abu Ghraib or Mylai or the atrocities that Islamofascist propagandists allege that American soldiers routinely commit in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
“The diarist is a self-important person, talking to himself and to the future, and conscious of his effect upon both.”
“When the diarist is a man of prominence, as in the case of Dean Swift, his journal throws an interesting light not only upon his own life but also upon the times in which he lives.”
“When such meetings did occur, Currie said, they were noted and a record of them turned over to a "diarist" named Ellen McCathran.”
“Calling himself a "diarist," Dunne dropped bold-faced names as he spilled behind-the-scenes nuggets gleaned from courtrooms and dinner parties alike.”
“Slouchy: A Mommy Blogger is a kind of diarist who writes in a magical land,”
“The famed diarist George Templeton Strong, for example, wrote that “the gorilla is superior to the Celtic in muscle and hardly their inferior in a moral sense.””
“In the film, each diarist has a segment to himself, to talk about the St. Elizabeths he has known.”
The Washington Post: Video diaries reveal life for those committed to St. Elizabeths
“That flag would fly over the island for 156 years, until a ceremonial hand-off that saw the final British governor, Chris Patten, in tears, and reduced Prince Charles to angry diarist mode.”
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
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Writer, Writer!
columnist, contributor, novelist, poet, wordsmith, stringer, freelancer, ghostwriter, journalist, correspondent, essayist, speechwriter and 99 more...
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