essay
noun/ˈeseɪ/
Слово англійською: essay
Переклад essay українською: есе
Детальний опис
- a short piece of writing by a student as part of a course of study
- I have to write an essay this weekend.
- essay on something an essay on the causes of the First World War
- essay about somebody/something Have you done your essay about Napoleon yet?
- in an essay He made some very good points in his essay.
- a short piece of writing on a particular subject, written in order to be published
- essay (by somebody) a collection of essays by prominent African American writers
- essay on somebody/something The book contains a number of interesting essays on women in society.
- essay about somebody/something Pierce contributes a long essay about John F. Kennedy.
- in an essay I discuss this in a forthcoming essay.
- essay (in something) (formal) an attempt to do something
- His first essay in politics was a complete disaster.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (as a verb in the sense ‘test the quality of’): alteration of assay, by association with Old French essayer, based on late Latin exagium ‘weighing’, from the base of exigere ‘ascertain, weigh’; the noun (late 16th cent.) is from Old French essai ‘trial’.