feuilletonist

F4E1U1I1L1L1E1T1O1N1I1S1T1

noun

A writer of feuilletons.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounfeuilletonist (plural feuilletonists)

plural feuilletonists

  1. A writer of feuilletons.

    But for all this, Grassou gave excellent counsel, like those feuilletonists incapable of writing a book who know very well where a book is wanting.

    1840, Honoré de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Pierre Grassou
    1 more example

    In 1895, while Japan was busy beating China, and had convinced herself that she could beat the world, one of the Tōkyō papers achieved a success by the publication of a serial noved entitled Asahi-Zakura, by a feuilletonist called Murai Gensai.

    1905, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese

Origin

  1. Frenchfeuilletoniste
  2. Englishfeuilletonist

From French feuilletoniste. By surface analysis, feuilleton + -ist.

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Translations

Czech fejetonista
  • fejetonistaa writer of feuilletons
Finnish följetongisti
  • följetongistia writer of feuilletons
French feuilletoniste
  • feuilletonistea writer of feuilletons
German Feuilletonist, Feuilletonistin
  • Feuilletonista writer of feuilletons
  • Feuilletonistina writer of feuilletons
Polish felietonista
  • felietonistaa writer of feuilletons
Romanian foiletonist, foiletonistă
  • foiletonista writer of feuilletons
  • foiletonistăa writer of feuilletons
Russian фельетонист
  • фельетонист (felʹjetonist)a writer of feuilletons
Spanish folletinista
  • folletinistaa writer of feuilletons
Yiddish פֿעליעטאָניסט
  • פֿעליעטאָניסט (felyetonist)a writer of feuilletons
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