feuilleton
/ˈfəːɪtɒ̃/US/ˌfəɪˈtɔn/
feuilleton noun: a section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
Noun
feuilleton (plural feuilletons)
- A section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
- An article published in such a section.
- Now and then, when luck had favoured me, I had managed to get five shillings for a feuilleton from some newspaper or other.1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part I”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 2
- The feuilleton, like the other serious, trivial, and merely curious stories on the newspaper page, served up an excess of details. For the most part, the feuilleton writer observed, rather than explained.1990, Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin: 1900, page 44
Forms of feuilleton
| plural | feuilletons |
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Origin of feuilleton
Borrowed from French feuilleton.
Words formed from feuilleton
Questions about feuilleton
- What does feuilleton mean?
- Feuilleton means a section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
- What part of speech is feuilleton?
- Feuilleton is a noun.
- How do you pronounce feuilleton?
- Feuilleton is pronounced /ˈfəːɪtɒ̃/ (UK).
- What is the plural of feuilleton?
- The plural of feuilleton is feuilletons.
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