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diarist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun diarist has 1 sense
- diarist(n = noun.person) diary keeper, journalist - someone who keeps a diary or journal; Array is a kind of writer
has particulars: pepys, samuel pepys
Derived forms noun diary2, noun diary1
THESAURUS
diarist
Boswell, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, autobiographer, autobiographist, belletrist, bibliographer, biographer, calendar maker, calendarist, chronicler, chronographer, chronologer, chronologist, clockmaker, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, historian, historiographer, horologist, humorist, inditer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, memorialist, monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, penwoman, poet, prose writer, reviewer, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, timekeeper, timer, watchmaker, word painter, wordsmith, writer
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