journalist
//ˈd͡ʒɝnəlɪst//
Forms
- Plural
- journalists
Definitions
1.The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
2.One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.
3.A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events.
- In 2017, Katherine Maher, then the CEO of the WMF, re-imagined the nonprofit’s mission as “top-down social justice activism and advocacy,” as journalist Ashley Rindsberg described it.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2236
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
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English journal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.