NOVELIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does novelist mean? 

• NOVELIST (noun)
  The noun NOVELIST has 1 sense:

1. one who writes novels

  Familiarity information: NOVELIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOVELIST (noun)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

I avail myself of the opportunity which a third edition of Jane Eyre affords me, of again addressing a word to the Public, to explain that my claim to the title of novelist rests on this one work alone.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Leave that to the novelists.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The great novelist vibrated between two decanters with the regularity of a pendulum; the famous divine flirted openly with one of the Madame de Staels of the age, who looked daggers at another Corinne, who was amiably satirizing her, after outmaneuvering her in efforts to absorb the profound philosopher, who imbibed tea Johnsonianly and appeared to slumber, the loquacity of the lady rendering speech impossible.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens—there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

'Apparently the age of romance was not dead, and there was common ground upon which the wildest imaginings of the novelist could meet the actual scientific investigations of the searcher for truth. He would only add, before he sat down, that he rejoiced—and all of them would rejoice—that these gentlemen had returned safe and sound from their difficult and dangerous task, for it cannot be denied that any disaster to such an expedition would have inflicted a well-nigh irreparable loss to the cause of Zoological science.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)