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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A writer of novels.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An innovator; a promoter of novelty.
  • noun A writer of news.
  • noun A writer of novels.
  • noun A novice.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An innovator; an asserter of novelty.
  • noun obsolete A writer of news.
  • noun A writer of a novel or novels.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An author of novels.
  • noun obsolete An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favours novelty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one who writes novels

Etymologies

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novel +‎ -ist.

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