novelistnov‧el‧ist /ˈnɒvəlɪst $ ˈnɑː-/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
Examples
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- Budding gay novelist Larry Kramer is enjoying success at last.
- Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.
- Japanese novelists deal with the question of old age in a way few other writers can aspire to.
- The book quotes from the diaries of novelist Evelyn Waugh.
- He's the missing working-class novelist, the link between Lawrence and Sillitoe.
- He was an actor, director, artist, singer, composer and novelist.
- Jason Purvis, the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame.
- The novels which followed this decision are the fulfilment of Hardy's career as a novelist.
- They are leaving us novelists without any subjects.
THESAURUS► writer
Collocations someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: · Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.· a writer for the Independent on Sunday magazine· I always wanted to be a writer.
► author someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: · Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie.· The author will be signing copies of his book.· He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’.
► novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: · Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.· the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland
► poet someone who writes poems: · a class studying the works of modern American poets
► playwright someone who writes plays: · Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in English history.
► dramatist someone who writes plays – used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: · the great French dramatist, Moliere
► scriptwriter (also screenwriter) someone who writes plays for films or television: · Three or four scriptwriters work on the show.
► blogger someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: · a travel blogger· a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who writes books► writer someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: · When I was young, I wanted to be a famous writer.· Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.American/German etc writer: · Do you have any books by modern American writers?(the) writer George Eliot/Arthur C. Clarke etc: · Among his influences, he places Wynton Marsalis and writer Stanley Goode.writer of: · Rush is a poet and writer of fiction.ghost writer (=someone who is paid to write a book for a person, as if it was their own work): · It seems likely that Campbell's book is almost wholly attributable to a ghostwriter.
► author someone who writes books, or who wrote a particular book, especially a literary book: · Balzac was one of her favourite authors.· A little gentle encouragement is all that is needed to put this promising author into the ranks of the high-flyers.German/French etc author: · The prize was won by the German author, Heinrich Böll.(the) author Marcel Proust/Steven King etc: · Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie.author of: · Who was the author of 'Catch 22'?· We will be interviewing Lisa Mainero, author of 'Office Romance'. co-author (=someone who writes a book with another person): · With co-author Eyre, Barlow has produced a book charting the history of African music.
► novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: · Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.French/Hispanic etc novelist: · Japanese novelists deal with the question of old age in a way few other writers can aspire to.(the) novelist Barbara Cartland/Carlos Fuentes etc: · The book quotes from the diaries of novelist Evelyn Waugh.· Budding gay novelist Larry Kramer is enjoying success at last.
WORD SETS► Literatureacrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► great
someone who writes novels → author· Jason Purvis, the starving beachcomber and would-be great novelist who at last did achieve a kind of fame.· Now the Arab world's greatest living novelist may lose his right to call himself a writer.· There was some fiction but not one of the great nineteenth century novelists was represented in it.· Stephen had never been able to talk to her about her relationship with the great novelist.· Greene wasn't a great novelist.· Timothy Mo, tall, dark, handsome, and one of the great novelists of the late twentieth century.
► new· What distinguishes the new novelists from their regionalist predecessors is, above all, their attitude towards the writer's craft.· Many of the new novelists, in fact, portray the alienation of Western man.
► romantic· The romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland has joined the battle to save an eleventh century abbey.· One of the guests was a rather fey romantic novelist.
VERB► write· It's written by the novelist Susan Hill.· In this context, what goes on outside, what is actually written by poets and novelists, is of minor interest.