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Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
John M. Ford

Meaning of "Bildungsroman" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BILDUNGSROMAN

Literally: education novel.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BILDUNGSROMAN

Bildungsroman  [ˈbɪldʊŋsromaːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BILDUNGSROMAN

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bildungsroman 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 BILDUNGSROMAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bildungsroman

Bildungsroman

In literary criticism, a Bildungsroman, novel of formation, novel of education, or coming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood, and in which, therefore, character change is extremely important.

Definition of Bildungsroman in the English dictionary

The definition of Bildungsroman in the dictionary is a novel concerned with a person's formative years and development.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BILDUNGSROMAN


adhan
ˌaˈðaːn
Meran
meˈraːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BILDUNGSROMAN

Biko
Bikram yoga
bilabial
bilabiate
bilander
bilateral
bilateral symmetry
bilateral trade
bilateralism
bilaterally
bilayer
Bilbao

WORDS THAT END LIKE BILDUNGSROMAN

anti-roman
businesswoman
chairwoman
Gallo-Roman
nouveau roman
old woman
one-woman
ottoman
radioman
red roman
roman
sloped roman
soman
spokeswoman
superwoman
the little woman
the woman
toman
woman
yeoman

Synonyms and antonyms of Bildungsroman in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Bildungsroman» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BILDUNGSROMAN

Find out the translation of Bildungsroman to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Bildungsroman from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Bildungsroman» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

成长小说
1,325 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
570 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
510 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
380 millions of speakers
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Bildungsroman
280 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
278 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
270 millions of speakers

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চিরন্তন
260 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
220 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
190 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

教養小説
130 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
85 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
85 millions of speakers
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Bildungsroman
80 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
75 millions of speakers

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बिल्डुंगस्रोमन
75 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
70 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
65 millions of speakers

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Bildungsroman
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Bildungsroman
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Bildungsroman
30 millions of speakers
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Bildungsroman
15 millions of speakers
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Bildungsroman
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

utvecklingsroman
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

bildungsroman
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Bildungsroman

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BILDUNGSROMAN»

The term «Bildungsroman» is regularly used and occupies the 81.111 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BILDUNGSROMAN» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «BILDUNGSROMAN»

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John M. Ford
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BILDUNGSROMAN»

Discover the use of Bildungsroman in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Bildungsroman and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic ...
Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women¿s Fiction combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American ...
Stella Bolaki, 2011
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The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture
This new edition includes an additional final chapter on the collapse of the Bildungsroman in the years around the First World War (a crisis which opened the way for Modernist experimentation), and a new preface in which the author looks ...
Franco Moretti, 2000
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Margaret Atwood and the Female Bildungsroman
In her study of Margaret Atwood, Ellen McWilliams explores how the Bildungsroman has been appropriated by women writers in the second half of the twentieth century.
Ellen McWilliams, 2009
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New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman
Presents new critical approaches to the Bildungsroman by analyzing spiritual, feminist, historicist and modernist perspectives.
Giovanna Summerfield, Lisa Downward, 2012
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Appearing to Diminish: Female Development and the British ...
Through analyses of The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, The Female Quixote, Evelina, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre, this genre study explores the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British female ...
Lorna Ellis, 1999
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Journeys of Formation: The Spanish American Bildungsroman
Ideal for students of modern Latin American literature, Journeys of Formation: The Spanish American 'Bildungsroman' offers a lucid introduction to the Bildungsroman as a genre before revealing how the journey motif works as both a plot ...
Yolanda A. Doub, 2010
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The German Bildungsroman: History of a National Genre
An historical overview of criticism of the Bildungsroman from the late 18th century to the present.
Todd Curtis Kontje, 1993
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The Realisation of Jane Eyre as a Bildungsroman
Also Jane Eyre betakes herself on the journey of life and in the novel the reader can watch the different steps she passes and accompanies her.
Catharina Kern, 2007
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Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman
Phantom Formations addresses the problem of the Bildungsroman through a rigorous examination of aesthetic ideology which explains the hysteria provoked by literary theory, clarifies the link between aestheticism and technologism, and ...
Marc Redfield, 1996
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Great Expectations as a Bildungsroman
In the following paper I am going to concentrate on the English Bildungsroman exclusively by analysing Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, a representative novel of the Victorian Bildungsroman.
Matthias Schmid, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BILDUNGSROMAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Bildungsroman is used in the context of the following news items.
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Murder in a Belfast family, a Greek drama and Jesuit sleuths
Blackly comic in tone, The Bones of It is a Bildungsroman that evolves into a slow-burning psychological exploration of the mind of a most ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
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Broadway's British invasion: history of a centuries-old transatlantic …
If that totemic American bildungsroman, The Godfather, were remade, it suggests, the most obvious cast would be British: Tom Hiddleston as ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Ten Nineties Earworms That Just Get Better With Age
Like the musical equivalent of Plath's The Bell Jar, “Seether” is an audible bildungsroman that kick-starts without hesitation. When Gordon sings ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
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TOP SHELF: Broken River Bonanza
“Visions” by Troy James Weaver is a twisted, sex- and religion-soaked bildungsroman that follows the rise of a broken American prophet in ... «Monitor, Jul 15»
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Gilmore Girls Reading Challenge: Great Expectations
In this bildungsroman, orphaned Pip narrates his story, beginning with his childhood in an English village, where his sister and her husband ... «HamletHub, Jul 15»
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Vince Staples' 'Summertime '06' Is a Pessimistic Album That Heralds …
Titled Summertime '06, the album is a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative about Staples' life during his middle school years, which he ... «Flavorwire, Jul 15»
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: Boys Befriend Ailing Classmate in …
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl: Boys Befriend Ailing Classmate in Bittersweet Bildungsroman. FRIENDS: Best Friends Forever (from left) Greg ... «Town Topics, Jul 15»
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New Trailer For The Diary Of A Teenage Girl
It's the kind of thing chin-stroking film critics (especially German one) might call a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age tale about a girl growing up ... «Empire Online, Jul 15»
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'Next Year' ('L'annee prochaine'): Film Review
Offering up a modest cinematic spin on the classic province-to-Paris Bildungsroman, Next Year (L'annee prochaine) follows two distaff BFF's ... «Hollywood Reporter, Jun 15»
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Eden: 20 Years in the Shadow of Daft Punk
Eden gives us the serious, comprehensive Bildungsroman approach to an artist and an art that are fundamentally shallow. Its novelistic ... «Seattle Weekly, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Bildungsroman [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bildungsroman>. May 2024 ».
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