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noveldom

noveldom noun: the sphere of novels.

Noun

noveldom (uncountable)

  1. The sphere of novels
    • These freedoms are not tolerated in American noveldom, and only a few futile "high-brows" sigh in vain for Thackeray's "happy harmless Fableland, where these things are."1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour
    • In noveldom woman still sets the moral standard, and to her the males, who are in full revolt against the acceptance of the infatuation of a pair of lovers as the highest manifestation of the social instinct, and against the restriction of the affections within the narrow circle of blood...1883, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist, Appendix

Origin of noveldom

From novel + -dom.

Questions about noveldom

What does noveldom mean?
Noveldom means the sphere of novels.
What part of speech is noveldom?
Noveldom is a noun.

Words near noveldom in the dictionary

  1. Nove
  2. novel
  3. novela
  4. novelas
  5. novelcraft
  6. noveldom
  7. novelese
  8. novelesque
  9. novelet
  10. Noveleta
  11. novelets

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