An essay is a prose essay of a small volume and a free composition, expressing individual impressions and considerations on a specific subject or issue, and obviously not claiming to be a defining or exhaustive interpretation of the subject.

In the "Explanatory Dictionary of Foreign Words" by L.P. The rat essay is defined as "an essay that treats any problems not in a systematic scientific form, but in a free form."

"Big Encyclopedic Dictionary" gives the following…