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nov·el·ist

 (nŏv′ə-lĭst)
n.
A writer of novels.
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novelist

(ˈnɒvəlɪst)
n
(Professions) a writer of novels
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nov•el•ist

(ˈnɒv ə lɪst)

n.
a person who writes novels.
[1720–30]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.novelist - one who writes novelsnovelist - one who writes novels    
author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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novelist

noun author, writer The key to success as a romantic novelist is absolute belief in your story.

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Translations
رِوائيرُوَائِيّ
romanopisec
forfatterromanforfatter
romaanikirjailija
novelistromanopisac
regényíró
skáldsagnahöfundur
小説家
소설가
románopisec
romanopisec
romanförfattare
นักแต่งนวนิยาย
romancıroman yazarı
người viết tiểu thuyết

novelist

[ˈnɒvəlɪst] Nnovelista mf
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novelist

[ˈnɒvəlɪst] nromancier/iére m/f
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novelist

nRomanschriftsteller(in) m(f), → Romancier m
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novelist

[ˈnɒvəlɪst] nromanziere/a
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novel1

(ˈnovəl) noun
a book telling a long story in prose. the novels of Charles Dickens.
ˈnovelist noun
the writer of a novel. Dickens was a great novelist.
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novelist

رُوَائِيّ romanopisec romanforfatter Romanschriftsteller μυθιστοριογράφος novelista romaanikirjailija romancier romanopisac scrittore 小説家 소설가 romanschrijver romanforfatter powieściopisarz romancista писатель-романист romanförfattare นักแต่งนวนิยาย romancı người viết tiểu thuyết 小说家
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References in classic literature ?
Certainly I could, if I held it the highest vocation of the novelist to represent things as they never have been and never will be.
Fortescue, the eminent novelist, reached the middle of a very long sentence.
But as you are only a novelist, I compliment you heartily on your clever little pasticcio, adding, however, that as an account of what actually passed between myself and Hetty, it is the wildest romance ever penned.
The Realists, who were undoubtedly the masters of fiction in their passing generation, and who prevailed not only in France, but in Russia, in Scandinavia, in Spain, in Portugal, were overborne in all Anglo-Saxon countries by the innumerable hosts of Romanticism, who to this day possess the land; though still, whenever a young novelist does work instantly recognizable for its truth and beauty among us, he is seen and felt to have wrought in the spirit of Realism.
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.
One reads of the astounding versatility of an actor who is stout and lean on the same evening, but what is he to the novelist who is a dozen persons within the hour?
CHARLES DICKENS was a novelist who lived and wrote at the same time as Thackeray.
how some poor unfortunate got up on to a steeple, who had better never have gone up as far as the belfry; and then, having needlessly got him up there, the happy novelist rings the bell for all the world to come together and hear, O dear!
Surely one ought to know the character of the person with whom one might spend all one's life; being a novelist, let him try to discover what sort of person she was.
However, had that been the case, there would have been no story, as the novelists say, and I trust, as he goes on, the reader may feel with me that that would have been a pity.
Novelists build mountains of stupidity out of a footprint on the sand, or from an impression of a hand on the wall.
Everything, however, passed satisfactorily by a lazy and fascinating transition into the sphere of art, that is, into the beautiful forms of life, lying ready, largely stolen from the poets and novelists and adapted to all sorts of needs and uses.