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NOVELIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

One who writes novels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("novelist" is a kind of...):

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Instance hyponyms:

Agee; James Agee (United States novelist (1909-1955))

Alcott; Louisa May Alcott (United States novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888))

Balzac; Honore Balzac; Honore de Balzac (French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850))

Falkner; Faulkner; William Cuthbert Faulkner; William Falkner; William Faulkner (United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962))

Genet; Jean Genet (French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986))

Giraudoux; Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux; Jean Giraudoux (French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944))

Goethe; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832))

Hugo; Victor-Marie Hugo; Victor Hugo (French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885))

George Meredith; Meredith (English novelist and poet (1828-1909))

Luigi Pirandello; Pirandello (Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936))

Marcel Proust; Proust (French novelist (1871-1922))

Emile Zola; Zola (French novelist and critic; defender of Dreyfus (1840-1902))

Derivation:

novel (a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction)

novel (an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story)

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