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Meaning of "dime novel" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DIME NOVEL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DIME NOVEL

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Dime novel 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 DIME NOVEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

dime novel

Dime novel

Dime novel, though it has a specific meaning, has also become a catch-all term for several different forms of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction, including "true" dime novels, story papers, five- and ten-cent weekly libraries, "thick book" reprints, and sometimes even early pulp magazines. The term was being used as a title as late as 1940, in the short-lived pulp Western Dime Novels. Dime novels are, at least in spirit, the antecedent of today's mass market paperbacks, comic books, and even television shows and movies based on the dime novel genres. In the modern age, "dime novel" has become a term to describe any quickly written, lurid potboiler and as such is generally used as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized yet superficial piece of written work.

Definition of dime novel in the English dictionary

The definition of dime novel in the dictionary is a cheap melodramatic novel, usually in paperback Also called : penny-dreadful.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DIME NOVEL

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WORDS THAT END LIKE DIME NOVEL

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Synonyms and antonyms of dime novel in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «dime novel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DIME NOVEL

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

Translator English - Chinese

一毛钱小说
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

novela barata
570 millions of speakers

English

dime novel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पैसा भी उपन्यास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رواية الدايم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

копейки роман
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

romance barato
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডাইম উপন্যাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sou roman
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Novel dime
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Groschenroman
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ダイム小説
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

싸구려 소설
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Novel dime
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tiểu thuyết rẻ tiền
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டைம் நாவல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नाटक कादंबरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

İngiliz romanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dime novel
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

powieść bilon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

копійки роман
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ban roman
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μυθιστόρημα δεκάρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dime roman
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

dime roman
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krone roman
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dime novel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DIME NOVEL»

The term «dime novel» is normally little used and occupies the 127.329 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DIME NOVEL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dime novel» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dime novel» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DIME NOVEL»

Discover the use of dime novel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dime novel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Dime Novel Companion: A Source Book
This encyclopedic guide to the American dime novel contains over 1,200 entries on serial publications, major writers and editors, publishers, and major characters, fiction genres, themes, and locales.
J. Randolph Cox, 2000
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The Dime Novel Detective
This volume offers a combination of representative dime novel detective fiction, presented in order of the respective series' first publication dates, and bibliographic material, which can assist the future scholar of the dime novels.
Gary Hoppenstand, 1982
3
A Dime Novel Hero
Spirited Kit Thornton portrays Jake Cordell in her novels as the defender of good, and when he left she buys his ranch, adopts the son he never knew he had, and lauds him as a hero, and now he returns a bitter and jaded man, and must prove ...
Maureen McKade, 1998
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Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers
This thrilling historical true crime narrative recovers the long-forgotten story of Ed and Lon Maxwell, outlaw brothers from Illinois who once rivalled Jesse and Frank James in national notoriety.
John Hallwas, 2011
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The Mountie from Dime Novel to Disney
Historian Michael Dawson digs deep into the written and pictorial record to reveal how the RCMP, since its inception, has constructed and zealously guarded its public image.
Michael Dawson, 1998
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Dime Novel Roundup: Annotated Index, 1931-1981
This book includes a chronological listing of issues of the Dime Novel Roundup, which was published for over fifty years. It also features an index to the contents of the Dime Novel Roundup. .
Michael L. Cook, 1983
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Judith's Dime Novel
Crossing the Sierra Nevada by stagecoach in 1868, Judith Adams has illusions of a romantic Wild West, but she soon finds out that in the real West life is not the same as in the dime-novels Westerns she loves to read
Stuart Murray, 1998
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The Dime Novel in Children's Literature
The American dime novel o›ers one of the best opportunities of all popular fiction for the description and classification of a large group of books having common traits. Because the dime novel was written for popular reading, it has not been ...
Vicki Anderson, 2004
9
The Dime Novel Western
Traces the development of the western dime novel form from its source in early nineteenth-century fiction through to its full manifestation in the late 1800s.
Daryl Jones, 1978
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Dashing Diamond Dick and Other Classic Dime Novels
Presents a collection of classic dime novels, representing a broad spectrum of genres, from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Dashing Diamond Dick, Over the Andes with Frank Reade, Jr., in His New Air-Ship, and ...
J. Randolph Cox, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DIME NOVEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dime novel is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Paradise Sky' a rip-roaring tale about Western legend Nat Love
Yet Lansdale has pulled out all the stops to deliver a rip-roaring tale completely in keeping with dime novel traditions and the cinematic ... «Los Angeles Times, Jun 15»
2
Is 'Texas Rising' fact or fiction?
The Wild West was a figment of the imagination of dime novel writers in New York and the Russians were more responsible for winning the ... «Guelph Mercury, Jun 15»
3
Shaded Answers
Other than that, Mr. Collins's puzzle is a breeze, with some nice long Downs cutting through the fill: SIDE ORDER, DIME NOVEL and POLO ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
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​An Ex-Con's Journey Through the National Museum of Crime and …
... outlaw mythology that has been romanticized since our country's founding. Viewing the original dime novel just validated what I do every day. «VICE, Jun 15»
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Your Turn: June 3
... terms such as “characteristically self-pitying” and is even guilty of creating offensive words like “microaggresion” that belong in a dime novel, ... «mySanAntonio.com, Jun 15»
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The Films of Christopher Nolan Ranked
It's classic dime novel detective story logic where a simple human desire to be connected explodes into something heinous. The non-linear ... «Minnesota Connected, May 15»
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Changing the Malay narrative – M. Bakri Musa
It is good fiction, as judged by its wide acceptance, much like a “good” dime novel has wide readership. Also like a good novel, the Ketuanan ... «The Malaysian Insider, May 15»
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Adams: How a Dime Novel led a Man to Harvard, Yale, a Rhodes …
In the mystical village of Lake Placid, near the skating arena where the likes of Scott Hamilton, Dorothy Hamill and Sonja Henie have skated, ... «HottyToddy.com, May 15»
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Getting close with Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
The cover photo for the new album "Middle Western" – featuring a dusty cowboy pulled off a dime novel paperback riding on, what else, a deer ... «OnMilwaukee.com, Apr 15»
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For good and bad, Civil War editor was man of his times
... a dime novel that may have sparked the Beale Treasure legend about a hoard of gold buried in Bedford. Then, Button bought the paper back. «Lynchburg News and Advance, Apr 15»

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