Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A writer of novels.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An innovator; a promoter of novelty.
- n. A writer of news.
- n. A writer of novels.
- n. A novice.
Wiktionary
- n. An author of novels.
- n. obsolete An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favours novelty.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete An innovator; an asserter of novelty.
- n. obsolete A writer of news.
- n. A writer of a novel or novels.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one who writes novels
Etymologies
- novel + -ist. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“On the other hand, the novelist is able to use interior monologue to get at the characters 'inner voices and states of mind in a way that is not usually possible in screenplays.”
“But frequently "platform" refers to the non-fiction content of a novel, the story's background, something that can be talked about almost as if the novelist is a journalist.”
A Conversation with Marcus Sakey, author of The Blade Itself
“Almost the whole capital of the novelist is the slow accumulation of unconscious observation -- absorption.”
“The indefinite article before "novelist" is revealing.”
“A novelist is limited only by his or her imagination.”
“A novelist is the entire cast and creates moods with words instead of music.”
“Yet at some point, any serious novelist is going to try to write from the perspective of the opposite sex, because the joy of writing fiction, as of reading it, is about getting outside your own head and into someone else's.”
“Because the novelist is like a plate spinner, you know, the guy who spins a dozen plates all at the same time while making sure none of them drop?”
“We were out one evening and during the course of a conversation I realized that writing, and being a novelist is NOT in fact the most important thing to me.”
“One of the dangers you have to guard against as a novelist is repeating things you're deemed to have done well in the past, just for the security of repeating them.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘novelist’.
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Who hid the keys?
Words for people who like to hide ideas, objects, and other living things
censor, bibliotaph, smuggler, stoic, obfuscator, cryptographer, novelist, magician, statistician, beautician, mule, abductor and 29 more...
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Writer, Writer!
columnist, contributor, novelist, poet, wordsmith, stringer, freelancer, ghostwriter, journalist, correspondent, essayist, speechwriter and 99 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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the library - the art of writing
chapter, deus ex machina, epilogue, palindrome, allusion, allegory, prose, epic, conjunction, comma, semicolon, period and 41 more...
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Snoopy
Fifty things Snoopy: his favorites, his nemeses, what he imitated, and what he imagined.
daisy hill puppy ..., fuzzy face, skritched, ptui, shortstop, arm wrestling, beethoven, moose, kangaroo, pelican, python, polar bear and 38 more...
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Writers
writer, scribbler, scrawler, author, wordsmith, novelist, scriptwriter, tragedian, dramatist, dramaturge, poetaster, scribe and 27 more...
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working for a living
playwright, bard, conductor, squire, professor, lackey, swashbuckler, corsair, apothecary, hangman, embalmer, executioner and 58 more...
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