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Webster 1913 Edition

Novelist

Nov′el-ist

,

Noun.

1.

An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

[Obs.]

Cudworth.

2.

[Cf. F.

nouvelliste

, It.

novellista

.]

A writer of news.

[Obs.]

Tatler (178).

3.

[Cf. F.

nouvelliste

.]

A writer of a novel or novels.

Webster 1828 Edition

Novelist

NOV'ELIST

,

Noun.

1.

An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

2.

A writer of a novel or of novels.

3.

A writer of news.

Definition 2024

novelist

novelist

English

Noun

novelist ‎(plural novelists)

An author of novels.
(obsolete) An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favours novelty.

Translations

author of novels

Afrikaans: romanskrywer
Armenian: վիպասան (hy) ‎(vipasan)
Asturian: novelista m, f
Basque: eleberrigile, nobelagile
Catalan: novel·lista (ca) m, f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 小說家 (zh), 小说家 (zh) ‎(xiǎoshuōjiā)
Czech: romanopisec (cs) m
Dutch: romancier (nl) m, romanschrijver (nl) m
Esperanto: romanisto
Finnish: romaanikirjailija (fi)
French: romancier (fr) m
Galician: novelista m, f
German: Romanautor m, Romanschreiber, Romancier (de) m
Greek: μυθιστοριογράφος (el) m, f ‎(mythistoriográfos)
Hungarian: regényíró (hu)
Indonesian: novelis (id)
Interlingua: romancero

Italian: romanziere (it) m
Japanese: 小説家 (ja) ‎(shōsetsuka)
Korean: 소설가 (ko) ‎(soseolga)
Macedonian: романописец m ‎(romanopísec), романсиер m ‎(romansiér)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: romanforfatter m

Nynorsk: romanforfattar m
Polish: powieściopisarz (pl) m, powieściopisarka (pl) f
Portuguese: romancista m, f, novelista (pt) m, f
Romanian: romancier (ro) m, romancieră (ro) f
Russian: романист (ru) m ‎(romanist)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: новелист m

Roman: novelist (sh) m
Slovak:
Spanish: novelista (es) m, f
Vietnamese: tiểu thuyết gia
Welsh: nofelydd (cy) m

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

novelist m ‎(Cyrillic spelling новелист)

novelist