novelistnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈnɒv.əl.ɪst/us/ˈnɑː.və.ɪst/B2 a person who writes novels
Examples
- Who do you think is the greatest modern novelist?
- She's more of a poet than a novelist.
- Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born poet and novelist.
- Charles Dickens is one of the best-known Victorian novelists.
- I would class her among the top ten American novelists.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
People who write for work or pleasure
- adapter
- authorial
- authorship
- chronicle
- co-author
- contributor
- copywriter
- cub reporter
- ghostwrite
- hack
- investigative journalism
- journalist
- naturalist
- playwright
- poet laureate
- satirist
- screenwriter
- scribbler
- scriptwriter
- speechwriter
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