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PRONUNCIATION OF BELLETRIST

belletrist  [bɛlˈlɛtrɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BELLETRIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Belletrist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BELLETRIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Belles-lettres

Belles-lettres or belles lettres is a term that is used to describe a category of writing. A writer of belles-lettres is a belletrist. However, the boundaries of that category vary in different usages. Literally, belles-lettres is a French phrase meaning "beautiful" or "fine" writing. In this sense, therefore, it includes all literary works—especially fiction, poetry, drama, or essays—valued for their aesthetic qualities and originality of style and tone. The term thus can be used to refer to literature generally. The Nuttall Encyclopedia, for example, described belles-lettres as the "department of literature which implies literary culture and belongs to the domain of art, whatever the subject may be or the special form; it includes poetry, the drama, fiction, and criticism," while the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition describes it as "the more artistic and imaginative forms of literature, as poetry or romance, as opposed to more pedestrian and exact studies.

Definition of belletrist in the English dictionary

The definition of belletrist in the dictionary is a writer of belles-lettres.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BELLETRIST


attrist
əˈtrɪst
audiometrist
ˌɔːdɪəʊˈmɛtrɪst
centrist
ˈsɛntrɪst
disinterest
dɪsˈɪntrɪst
dosimetrist
dəʊˈsɪmətrɪst
econometrist
ɪˌkɒnəˈmɛtrɪst
geriatrist
ˌdʒerɪˈætrɪst
interest
ˈɪntrɪst
metrist
ˈmɛtrɪst
monolatrist
mɒˈnɒlətrɪst
neuropsychiatrist
ˌnjʊərəʊsaɪˈkaɪətrɪst
optometrist
ɒpˈtɒmɪtrɪst
pediatrist
piːˈdaɪətrɪst
photometrist
ˌfəʊˈtɒmətrɪst
physiatrist
fɪˈzaɪətrɪst
podiatrist
pəˈdaɪətrɪst
psychiatrist
saɪˈkaɪətrɪst
psychometrist
saɪˈkɒmətrɪst
subtrist
sʌbˈtrɪst
tryst
trɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BELLETRIST

bellboy
bellcote
belle
Belle Isle
Belleau Wood
Belleek
Bellerophon
belles-lettres
belleter
belletrism
belletristic
belletristical
bellflower
bellfounder
bellfoundry
bellhanger
bellhop
bellibone
bellicose
bellicosely

WORDS THAT END LIKE BELLETRIST

anthropometrist
archaeometrist
Christ
consultant psychiatrist
contrist
craniometrist
entrist
geometrist
hexametrist
hippiatrist
hypsometrist
nonpsychiatrist
orthopsychiatrist
photogrammetrist
questrist
sociometrist
Tantrist
terrorist
tourist
wrist

Synonyms and antonyms of belletrist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «belletrist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BELLETRIST

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The translations of belletrist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «belletrist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

belletrist
1,325 millions of speakers

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belletrist
570 millions of speakers

English

belletrist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साहित्यिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

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belletrist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

беллетрист
278 millions of speakers

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belletrist
270 millions of speakers

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belletrist
260 millions of speakers

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belletrist
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Belletrist
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Literat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

純文学作家
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

belletrist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Belletrist
85 millions of speakers
vi

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belletrist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

belletrist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेललेटिस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

belletrist
70 millions of speakers

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belletrist
65 millions of speakers

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belletrist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

белетрист
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

belletrist
30 millions of speakers
el

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belletrist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

belletrist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

belletrist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

belletrist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of belletrist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BELLETRIST»

The term «belletrist» is normally little used and occupies the 134.750 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BELLETRIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about belletrist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BELLETRIST»

Discover the use of belletrist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to belletrist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Russian Literary Criticism: A Short History
Belinsky distinguishes, as have many critics, between the artist and the belletrist: the former is the rare creator who supplements reality (whose works are "more real than reality itself) and the latter is the imitator. In a later age the critic ...
Robert H. Stacy, 1974
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The Cambridge History of American Literature:
Robert Bolling's career as a belletrist illustrates the complexity of a talented writer's situation in British America at the end of the colonial era. Scion of one of Virginia's great planter families, he was educated in Britain at the grammar school in ...
Sacvan Bercovitch, 1997
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The Arabs in Antiquity: Their History from the Assyrians to ...
belletrist: al-Gahiz. Ibn Khaldun defined S'arab by a combination of criteria: they are characterized by racial purity, i.e. genealogical awareness, but this arises from their way of living in harsh environmental conditions. This awareness of the  ...
Jan Retso, 2013
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The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World
15 Of a different kind is the khutba the Almohad judge and belletrist Abu Hafs ' Umar al—Aghmfiti (d. 603/1207) delivered condemning the philosophersI6 — a daring enterprise given the Almohad's patronage of philosophical learning. Finally ...
Linda G. Jones, 2012
5
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
In a work recording some of his poetic exchanges with contemporaries, he cited a poem sent to him from a Meccan belletrist named Badr al-Dı ̄n ibn Umar Khu ̄j. In this poem, Badr al-Dı ̄n excuses himself for not having written for some ...
Khaled El-Rouayheb, 2009
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Lectures on Logic
The humanist is such through the fact that his cognition is science, learnedness. - } What corresponds to the humanist is the belletrist. He is not concerned, like the former, with the independently beautiful, but only with what is alterable in ...
Immanuel Kant, J. Michael Young, 2004
7
Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of ...
Although this oral philosopher should rightfully be acknowledged as the progenitor of the term gharbzadegi, the person who did the most to popularize this concept was a Bohemian belletrist. Jalal Al-e Ahmad: The Bohemian Belletrist Jalal ...
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, 1996
8
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
2. Adam. Smith,. Belletrist. The Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres as we have it does not derive from Smith's own text, which on his instructions was destroyed along with other unpublished literary materials shortly before his death . Rather ...
Knud Haakonssen, 2006
9
Liberals under Autocracy: Modernization and Civil Society in ...
A. N. Pypin, “Belletrist-narodnik shestidesiatykh godov,” Vestnik Evropy 8 (1884) 35450. For excellent treatments of these writers see also Cathy A. Frierson, Peasant Icons: Representations ofRural People in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia ...
Anton A. Fedyashin, 2012
10
Animal Sensibility and Inclusive Justice in the Age of ...
72 In the preface to Man and Superman (1903), Shaw congratulated himself on not being a belletrist. The belletrist is effete and gentlemanly; Shaw was not or did not wish to be seen so. Even before he wrote his first play, he ac- knowledged  ...
Rod Preece, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BELLETRIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term belletrist is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Glut of Gossip
James was the brother of Lytton, the celebrated belletrist and author of “Eminent Victorians,” and had some inside knowledge of the matter. «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
2
Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks und 143 weitere Autoren …
... der Belletrist Nell Freudenberger, die Autorin und Belletristik-Lehrerin Janet Burroway, der Historiker und Journalist Russell Shorto sowie der ... «World Socialist Web Site, May 15»
3
The Queen is set to amend Church of England prayers to include …
The new literary director of the Man Booker prize, after the death of highly respected Ion Trewin, is belletrist Gaby Wood. She is the daughter of ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
4
Diogenes-Verleger Bettschart ist tot
Der grosse Belletrist ist tot. Diogenes-Verleger Daniel Keel ist heute Morgen gestorben. Der Schweizer entdeckte unzählige berühmte ... «Der Bund, Apr 15»
5
The Shrinking World of Ideas
These smaller, self-contained entities, whether they were of the scientific, scholarly, or belletrist kind, were for the most part intolerant of one ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov 14»
6
Jason Cowley: Post-Salmond, the SNP will be stronger than ever
Squire was a belletrist who could turn his hand to many things, including on one occasion commentating on the Boat Race for the BBC. «New Statesman, Sep 14»
7
Susan Sontag, Simon Weil, and the Pursuit of Seriousness
It is her main contribution as a belletrist, the idea that seriousness itself is a goal, that in the collapse of all other values, we can be serious ... «Patheos, Aug 14»
8
Dirk Hayhurst's story of sexual abuse and debauchery in the minors …
He is a belletrist, which is to say, a literary artist of substantial rank, and he's still learning his craft. It's not as if the overarching problem of sexual ... «NBCSports.com, Aug 14»
9
Under the Dome season 2 gets ludicrous and Stephen King is a hack
... dome at the end of season one are still trapped under it as the series returns Tuesday night in an episode written by the belletrist King himself ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 14»
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Under the Dome 'ludicrous' TV
... dome at the end of Season 1 are still trapped under it as the series returns Monday night in an episode written by the belletrist King himself. «Stuff.co.nz, Jun 14»

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