NOVELISTS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

novelists

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plural of novelist

as in storytellers

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The students who wrote these letters are a dazzlingly multilingual crowd, natural storytellers who can toggle between three or four languages in the same conversation.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 12 Aug. 2026
Throughout the first twenty years of our history as digital storytellers, family-life representation has continued on the same trajectory that started with the fantasy-family home videos first made by amateur filmmakers in the 1920s and ’30s.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of storytellers

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The Dowd Voicers are either clueless about the facts or, like their hero Trump, are simply fabulists making up numbers to suit their biased narrative.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
More than 80 years later, writers, creators, and fabulists in dark corners of the internet are still imagining ways and worlds where Hitler’s genes somehow survived.

— Rosemary Counter, Vanity Fair, 19 Jan. 2026

Definition of fabulists

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Since becoming Main Street Players’ artistic director last fall, Sara Jarrell has been working to broaden that company’s commitment to original work, local playwrights and artistic collaboration.

— Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
Since the first Interview episodes, Jones and Hannah Moscovitch, both playwrights, have imbued the series with a kind of meta-argument for the power of art in times of tremendous turmoil.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

Definition of playwrights

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