- novelist
- noun Date: 1728 a writer of novels
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novelist — novèlist (novelȉst) m DEFINICIJA knjiž. pisac novela ETIMOLOGIJA vidi novela … Hrvatski jezični portal
Novelist — Nov el*ist, n. 1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.] Cudworth. [1913 Webster] 2. [Cf. F. nouvelliste, It. novellista.] A writer of news. [Obs.] Tatler (178). [1913 Webster] 3. [Cf. F. nouvelliste.] A writer of a novel or novels. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
novelist — (n.) writer of novels, 1728, hybrid from NOVEL (Cf. novel) (n.) + IST (Cf. ist). Influenced by It. novellista. Earlier in English, it meant an innovator (1580s) … Etymology dictionary
novelist — ► NOUN ▪ a writer of novels. DERIVATIVES novelistic adjective … English terms dictionary
novelist — [näv′ə list] n. a person who writes novels … English World dictionary
novelist — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ great, leading (esp. BrE) ▪ one of the country s greatest contemporary novelists ▪ acclaimed, famous ▪ best selling, popular … Collocations dictionary
novelist — [[t]nɒ̱vəlɪst[/t]] novelists N COUNT A novelist is a person who writes novels. The key to success as a romantic novelist is absolute belief in your story … English dictionary
novelist */ — UK [ˈnɒvəlɪst] / US [ˈnɑv(ə)lɪst] noun [countable] Word forms novelist : singular novelist plural novelists someone who writes novels … English dictionary
novelist — noun Kafka was a Czech novelist who wrote in German Syn: writer, author, fictionist, man/woman of letters, scribe; informal penman, scribbler … Thesaurus of popular words
novelist — n author, writer, novel writer, writer of fiction, creative writer, fictioneer, fictionist, prose writer; scribbler, logographer, penman, Inf. scribe; literary artist or craftsman, word painter, wordsmith, belletrist, litterateur, man of letters; … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
novelíst — a m (ȋ) kdor piše novele: je odličen novelist in romanopisec … Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika
