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Plural of novelist

regular plural

The plural of novelist is novelists.

Forms of novelist

Singularnovelist /ˈnɑvəlɪst/
Pluralnovelists
Countablecountable

Novelists in a sentence

  • Max Beerbohm so commends to lady novelists, and which has so often been taken by Mr.2021 February 17, E. M. Forster, Delphi Complete Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated), Delphi Classics, →ISBN. From the entry dahabieh
  • She assumed these to be the fevered imaginings of dime novelists.2016, Derek Catron, chapter 7, in Trail Angel: A Frontier Epic of Love & Redemption, Waterville, Me.: Five Star, Gale, →ISBN, page 38. From the entry dime novelist
  • Novelists like Michael Crichton have imagined nanoscale robots creating an ecodisaster.2007 November 7, Barnaby J. Feder, “Aiding the Environment, a Nanostep at a Time”, in New York Times. From the entry ecodisaster
  • Other late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century novelists utilized thinly disguised Edison-surrogates in a range of future war books.1997, Brooks Landon, Science Fiction After 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars, New York, N.Y.: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry future war
  • For this reason I am sure that, whatever novelists and dramatists pretend, they are not natural chatterboxes.1949, Frank Swinnerton, “Charladies”, in Tokefield Papers, Old and New, new and enlarged edition, London: Hamish Hamilton, →OCLC, part…. From the entry malapropism

Meaning of novelist

  1. noun An author of novels.
  2. noun An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favors novelty.

Full definition of novelist

Questions about the plural of novelist

What is the plural of novelist?
The plural of novelist is novelists.
Is novelist countable?
Novelist is a countable noun.

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