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fictionist

fictionist noun: one who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist.

Noun

fictionist (plural fictionists)

  1. One who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist.
    • Just as the Muslim world was vibrating to the ‘insult’ visited on the Prophet Muhamed (Peace Be Upon Him) by an Anglo-Pakistani fictionist of genius and renown, the British and American mass audience was thrilling to the reborn version of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.1989, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Siding with Rushdie’, London Review of Books, volume 11, number 20

Forms of fictionist

pluralfictionists

Origin of fictionist

From fiction + -ist.

Questions about fictionist

What does fictionist mean?
Fictionist means one who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist.
What part of speech is fictionist?
Fictionist is a noun.
What is the plural of fictionist?
The plural of fictionist is fictionists.

Words near fictionist in the dictionary

  1. fictionise
  2. fictionised
  3. fictionises
  4. fictionish
  5. fictionising
  6. fictionist
  7. fictionistic
  8. fictionists
  9. fictionization
  10. fictionizations
  11. fictionize

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