feuilletonist

See also: Feuilletonist

English

Etymology

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

Noun

feuilletonist (plural feuilletonists)

1. A writer of feuilletons.
   • 1905, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Things Japanese:

     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.

   • 1840, Honoré de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Pierre Grassou:

     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.

Translations

a writer of feuilletons

• Czech: fejetonista m
• French: feuilletoniste (fr) m or f
• German: Feuilletonist (de) m, Feuilletonistin (de) f
• Macedonian: фељтони́ст m (feljtoníst), фељтони́стка f (feljtonístka)
• Polish: felietonista (pl) m
• Romanian: foiletonist (ro) m, foiletonistă (ro) f
• Russian: фельетонист (ru) m (felʹjetonist)
• Yiddish: פֿעליעטאָניסט m (felyetonist)

Further reading

• “feuilletonist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.