novelist
小説家
解説 Definition
小説を創作する作家のことを指します。物語を通じて人間の感情や経験を表現する芸術家です。
A novelist is a writer who creates novels, which are long fictional stories. The word is mainly used when talking about someone's profession or creative work. It usually refers to a person known for writing books of fiction.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
novel を知っていれば、novel + -ist「〜する人」で「小説を書く人」と組み立てて覚えられます。artist, scientist などの -ist と同じ型です。writer はもっと広く「書く人」全般、author も本の著者全般ですが、novelist は fiction、特に長めの物語を書く人に絞られるのがポイント。a famous novelist, become a novelist, read a novelist’s works のような場面と一緒に覚えると定着しやすいです。
If you know `novel`, add `-ist`, the same ending as in `artist` or `scientist`, and you get a person connected with novels. This makes it more specific than `writer`, which is broader. Remember it with phrases like `famous novelist` or `become a novelist`.
例文
The famous novelist won the literary prize for her latest work.
その有名な小説家は最新作で文学賞を受賞しました。
Many novelists find inspiration from their personal experiences and surroundings.
多くの小説家は個人的な経験と周囲の環境からインスピレーションを得ます。
This novelist's books have been translated into more than fifty languages.
この小説家の本は50以上の言語に翻訳されています。
novelist の類義語・関連語
novelist の語源・成り立ち Etymology
novelist は novel「小説」に -ist「〜する人」が付いた語です。novel はイタリア語 novella を経てラテン語 novus「新しい」にさかのぼり、もとは「新しい話」の感覚なので、novice や innovate と同じく『新しさ』の語根を共有します。
"Novelist" is made from "novel" plus the ending -ist, meaning a person connected with something. "Novel" came through Italian novella and goes back to Latin novus, meaning "new." The early sense was of a new or fresh story, and from that it came to mean the kind of writer we know today; related words include "novice" and "innovate."
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