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fictionists

fictionists is the plural of fictionist.

Meaning of fictionist

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

Questions about fictionists

What is fictionists the plural of?
Fictionists is the plural of fictionist.

Words near fictionists in the dictionary

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

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