Novelist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Novelist \Nov"el*ist\, n.
     1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.] --Cudworth.
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     2. [Cf. F. nouvelliste, It. novellista.] A writer of news.
        [Obs.] --Tatler (178).


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     3. [Cf. F. nouvelliste.] A writer of a novel or novels.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  novelist
       n : someone who writes novels

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "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