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Noun novelist has 1 sense

• novelist(n = noun.person) - one who writes novels;
is a kind of author, writer
has particulars: agee, james agee, alcott, louisa may alcott, balzac, honore balzac, honore de balzac, falkner, faulkner, william cuthbert faulkner, william falkner, william faulkner, genet, jean genet, giraudoux, hippolyte jean giraudoux, jean giraudoux, goethe, johann wolfgang von goethe, hugo, victor-marie hugo, victor hugo, george meredith, meredith, luigi pirandello, pirandello, marcel proust, proust, emile zola, zola
Derived forms noun novel₂, noun novel₁

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novelist

advertising writer, anecdotist, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, fableist, fabler, fabulist, fictionist, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, inditer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, monographer, music critic, mythmaker, mythopoet, narrator, newspaperman, novelettist, pamphleteer, penwoman, poet, prose writer, raconteur, reciter, recounter, relator, reviewer, romancer, romancist, sagaman, scenario writer, scenarist, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, spinner of yarns, storier, storyteller, taleteller, technical writer, teller of tales, word painter, wordsmith, writer, yarn spinner

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Description

N description, account, statement, report, expose, specification, particulars, state of facts, summary of facts, brief, return, catalogue raisonne, guidebook, delineation, sketch, monograph, minute account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic account, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, historiography, chronography, historic Muse, Clio, history, biography, autobiography, necrology, obituary, narrative, history, memoir, memorials, annals, saga, tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette, personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions, anecdote, ana, trait, work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press, fairy tale, nursery tale, fable, parable, apologue, dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator, raconteur, historian, biographer, fabulist, novelist, descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn, historic, traditional, traditionary, legendary, anecdotic, storied, described, furor scribendi.

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