novelist

noun

nov·​el·​ist ˈnä-və-list How to pronounce novelist (audio)
ˈnäv-
: a writer of novels

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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table. Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 Cosby is a gifted novelist whose passionate writing about the modern South has garnered him much critical praise and the admiration of President Obama. Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025 Among its most renowned figures were novelists Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster; painters Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, and Duncan Grant; nonfiction writers and critics Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy, and Leonard Woolf; and economist John Maynard Keynes. Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 14 May 2025 The partnership between the Billboard Hot 100-topping singer-songwriter and the Jack Kerouac Estate will work toward furthering the legacy of novelist and Massachusetts native Kerouac, while also helping aid creativity within Kerouac’s hometown. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for novelist

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First Known Use

1728, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of novelist was in 1728

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“Novelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelist. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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novelist

noun
nov·​el·​ist ˈnäv-(ə-)ləst How to pronounce novelist (audio)
: a writer of novels
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