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chronotopes

chronotopes is the plural of chronotope.

Meaning of chronotope

Noun

chronotope (plural chronotopes)

  1. The representation, in language, of a particular time and space.
    • […] but the methodology also requires that postmodern literary chronotopes are related to a historical development of the novel (itself a kind of chronotope), to representational chronotopes in other art forms, and to the practical chronotopes that […]2000, Paul Smethurst, The Postmodern Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 65

Questions about chronotopes

What is chronotopes the plural of?
Chronotopes is the plural of chronotope.

Words near chronotopes in the dictionary

  1. chronothermometer
  2. chronothermometers
  3. chronotolerance
  4. chronotolerances
  5. chronotope
  6. chronotopes
  7. chronotopic
  8. chronotopically
  9. chronotopicity
  10. chronotopographic
  11. chronotopographical

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