1 ~ (on sth) a short piece of writing by a student as part of a course of study:
an essay on the causes of the First World War
2 ~ (on sth) a short piece of writing on a particular subject, written in order to be published:
The book contains a number of interesting essays on women in society.
3 ~ (in sth) (formal) an attempt to do sth:
His first essay in politics was a complete disaster.
verb [VN] (literary) to try to do sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for essay is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is essay a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, essay is tagged as noun.
Does essay appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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