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di·a·rist

(dī′ə-rĭst)

A person who keeps a diary.

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diarist

(ˈdaɪərɪst)

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who keeps or writes a diary, esp one that is subsequently published

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di•a•rist

(ˈdaɪ ə rɪst)

n.

a person who keeps a diary.

[1810–20]

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diarist - someone who keeps a diary or journal

diary keeper, journalist

writer - a person who is able to write and has written something

diarist

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Diarists

Marie Bashkirtseff (Russian), Fanny Burney (English), E.M. Delafield (English), John Evelyn (English), Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones) (English), Anne Frank (Dutch), André Gide (French), George and Weedon Grossmith (Charles Pooter) (English), Francis Kilvert (British), Samuel Pepys (English), Marion Rivers-Moore (English), Sue Townsend (Adrian Mole) (English), Anaïs Nin (French-U.S.), Dorothy Wordsworth (English)

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diariste

diarist

[ˈdaɪərɪst] N → diarista mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

diarist

n (of personal events) → Tagebuchschreiber(in) m(f); (of contemporary events) → Chronist(in) m(f)

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From this direction there came along the road that evening a glitter and clatter of light cavalry, in which even the simple diarist could recognise with astonishment the general with his staff.

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Augustus Pelham, the diarist, liked a calm atmosphere in which to tell his stories; he liked attention; he liked to elicit little facts, little stories, about the past and the great dead, from such distinguished characters as Mrs.

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Diarist Samuel Pepys made the first reference to Punch in England, in 1662.

Punch

missionary, diarist. Born in Haddam, Connecticut, Brainerd was expelled from Yale and became a missionary to Indians along the Hudson Valley.

Brainerd, David (1718-1747)

Safety and confidentiality is ensured by each diarist assuming an alias and saving data to their own computer.

Understanding ME; & COMMENT DEBATE YOUR LETTERS TO THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER OF WALES

Helen Fielding created which fictional female diarist? 2.

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"I couldn't agree more - it's what the World Cup's about." Those words rang hollow when your diarist asked politely if he could get a lift in a near-empty minibus for FIFA delegates, bound for the stadium ahead of the Australia v Serbia game in Nelspruit.

Blatter message ignored by FIFA; WORLD CUP DIARY COMPILED BY DAVID McDONNELL

But a good diarist does not have to be near to the centres of power, or close to the flames.

A war diary; Chris Upton tells the tale of a very ordinary woman and her extraordianary account of daily life in fraught times

1740: James Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, diarist and renowned biographer of Samuel Johnson, was born.

ON THIS DAY IN ..

ISBN 978-000-722-8201 When the war broke out the diarist was a nineteen year old typist from a middle-class family.

Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF

Stars Hugh Grant, Colin Firth and Renee Zellweger were at the launch of the screen version of Helen Fielding's novel about the neurotic diarist.

Geri's solo Diary date

The diary form mixes the diarist's subjectivity with things observed, a picture of reality forming in the oscillation between the two.