Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who writes paragraphs for or as if for newspapers; a paragraphist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

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  • noun A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper)

Etymologies

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paragraph +‎ -er

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Examples

  • "paragrapher" -- enclosing a taste of his quality in the shape of two stanzas of "humorous rhymes."

    Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) Mark Twain 1872

  • "paragrapher" -- enclosing a taste of his quality in the shape of two stanzas of "humorous rhymes."

    Complete Letters of Mark Twain Mark Twain 1872

  • As a spicy paragrapher, originator of attractive news features, and as a keen observer of popular tastes, he has few equals and no superiors in the army of Afro-American journalists.

    Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

  • Although there was some grumbling among the marketmen, the provision stores were soon put through such a course of scrubbing and whitening as to make the old-fashioned "spring house-cleaning," which has been the bugbear of _pater familias_ and one of the chief assets of the paragrapher for so many years, a process of incomparably mild flavor.

    A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day Helen M. Winslow

  • I found an intensely amusing book, "Who's Who in Japan," a copy of which would be a valuable standby to a newspaper paragrapher in his bad moments.

    Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

  • Richmond "Times-Dispatch," of which paper he later became paragrapher and daily poet, and still later editor in chief.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

  • But there was very much less of this sort of thing and of the daily badinage of the paragrapher than in the days of Field's primacy in that line.

    Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

  • For more than a decade, and until he became enamoured of books and bibliomania, Field was the most widely quoted political paragrapher in America.

    Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

  • Thither he returned in the spring of 1876, and the Evening Journal, being by this time consolidated with the Times, he became an editorial writer and paragrapher on the hyphenated publication.

    Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

  • The speech of presentation was made by our friend, “Colonel” James S. Norton, in what the rural paragrapher would have described as “the most felicitous effort of his life,” and the wonderful collection was commended to Mr. Larned's grateful preservation by the judgment of Mr. Henry Field, whose own choice selection of paintings is the most valued possession of the Chicago Art Institute.

    Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

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