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historical novelist

historical novelist noun: one who writes historical novels.

Noun

historical novelist (plural historical novelists)

  1. One who writes historical novels.
    • […] the actual manners, customs, and peculiarities of some ages are illustrated and explained, and, though real personages are introduced, they are not clothed with fictions inconsistent or at variance with their real character. / In the class of those who have been most successful as historical...1822 April 20, “[Review of New Books.] The Lollards; a Tale founded on the Persecutions which marked the early part of the Fifteenth Century. […]”, in The Literary Chronicle and Weekly Review; […]...
    • Historical novelists usually create a language for their characters that suggests the period without reproducing it in its archaic fullness.1999, Michael Petracca, The Graceful Lie: A Method for Making Fiction, Prentice Hall, →ISBN

Forms of historical novelist

pluralhistorical novelists

Questions about historical novelist

What does historical novelist mean?
Historical novelist means one who writes historical novels.
What part of speech is historical novelist?
Historical novelist is a noun.
What is the plural of historical novelist?
The plural of historical novelist is historical novelists.

Words near historical novelist in the dictionary

  1. historical interpreters
  2. historical linguistics
  3. historical materialism
  4. historical method
  5. historical novel
  6. historical novelist
  7. historical novelists
  8. historical novels
  9. historical present
  10. historical research
  11. historical societies

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