Noun: essay
| Singular | essay |
| Plural | essays |
Sample Sentences
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In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” [2013 January 26, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, page 64:]
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My first essay at getting employment was fruitless; but after no small number of mortifying rebuffs from various parties to whom I applied for assistance, I was at last rewarded by a comparative success. [1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 16:]
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This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become his hallmark. [1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 455:]
Nouns inflected like essay
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Since late 16th century, borrowed from Middle French essay, essai (“essay”), meaning coined by Montaigne at the same time, from the same words with the earlier meanings 'experiment; assay; attempt', from Old French essay, essai, assay, assai, from Latin exagium (“weight; weighing, testing on the balance”), from exigere + -ium. See: Latin Nouns '
exagium'.
Verbs referencing "essay"
Dutch Nouns
essay, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
essay, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
essay, Spanish Nouns
ensayo, Czech Nouns
esej.