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essay
[ noun es-ey es-ey, e-sey verb e-sey ]
noun
- a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
- anything resembling such a composition:
a picture essay.
- an effort to perform or accomplish something; attempt.
- Philately. a design for a proposed stamp differing in any way from the design of the stamp as issued.
- Obsolete. a tentative effort; trial; assay.
verb (used with object)
- to try; attempt.
- to put to the test; make trial of.
essay
noun
- a short literary composition dealing with a subject analytically or speculatively
- an attempt or endeavour; effort
- a test or trial
verb
- to attempt or endeavour; try
- to test or try out
Other Word Forms
- ·İ noun
- e· verb (used without object)
- ܲe· adjective
- ɱ-· adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of essay1
Example Sentences
The U.N. and the European Union would condemn the seizure as illegitimate and demand negotiations; stern essays would be written casting America as a pariah state no better than Russia.
That was apparently because Decker published an essay, titled "When Must We Kill Them?," on his blog posing the question of when violence becomes justified in the face of authoritarianism.
“Laudato Si” is almost certainly the most famous climate essay ever written.
In an essay for the New York Times called "My Dinner With Adolf," David took Maher to task for attempting to soften the image of a fascist strongman.
Once, when he was tasked with writing an essay about the Scythian period of Indian history, he travelled to a museum in a neighbouring state to study first-hand sculptures and scripts from that era.
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