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Definition of Novelist
1. Noun. One who writes novels.
Specialized synonyms: Agee, James Agee, Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Balzac, Honore Balzac, Honore De Balzac, Falkner, Faulkner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, William Falkner, William Faulkner, Genet, Jean Genet, Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux, Jean Giraudoux, Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor-marie Hugo, George Meredith, Meredith, Luigi Pirandello, Pirandello, Marcel Proust, Proust, Emile Zola, Zola
Derivative terms: Novel, Novel
Definition of Novelist
1. n. An innovator; an asserter of novelty.
Definition of Novelist
1. Noun. An author of novels. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favours novelty. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Novelist
1. a writer of novels [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Novelist
Literary usage of Novelist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Norris, novelist, i 8 10685; Jefferies, author of essays and stories, 14 8215;
Allen, novelist and essayist, i 399; Balfour, philosophical essayist, 3 1287; ..."
2. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises by William Cushing (1885)
"A celebrated French novelist; b. in Paris; in 1822 married the Baron Casimir
Dudevant, ... An American poet and novelist ; b. in Boston ; wrote 20 or :!0 ..."
3. A Hand-book of English Literature: Intended for the Use of High Schools, as by Francis Henry Underwood (1888)
"Philosopher 1778 i8*y Dr. Thomas Brown Metaphysician 1778-1820 Mrs. Frances Trollope
novelist and Traveller 1778-1863 Henry Hallam Historian, . ..."
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