Usually means: Structured writing expressing ideas, arguments.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. essay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. essay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. essay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. essay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. essay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Essay, essay, essay: Wordnik
  7. essay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. essay: Wiktionary
  9. essay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. essay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. essay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. essay: Dictionary.com
  13. essay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. essay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Essay (disambiguation), Essay (numismatics), Essay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Essay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. essay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. essay: Rhymezone
  19. Essay, essay (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. essay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. essay: Free Dictionary
  22. essay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. essay: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. essay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
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  1. The essay, essay: Legal dictionary

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  1. The essay, essay: Encyclopedia

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  1. essay: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  1. essay: Master Mariner

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (authorship) A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
noun:  (obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.
noun:  (now rare) An attempt.
noun:  (philately, finance) A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.
verb:  (dated, transitive) To attempt or try.
verb:  (intransitive) To move forth, as into battle.

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