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Meaning of "roman-fleuve" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ROMAN-FLEUVE

Literally: stream novel.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ROMAN-FLEUVE

roman-fleuve  [rɔmɑ̃flœv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROMAN-FLEUVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Roman-Fleuve 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 ROMAN-FLEUVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Novel sequence

A novel sequence is a set or series of novels which share common themes, characters, or settings, but where each novel has its own title and free-standing storyline, and can thus be read independently or out of sequence.

Definition of roman-fleuve in the English dictionary

The definition of roman-fleuve in the dictionary is a novel or series of novels dealing with a family or other group over several generations.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROMAN-FLEUVE


romans-fleuves
rɔmɑ̃flœv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROMAN-FLEUVE

romance
romancer
romancical
Romanes
Romanesque
Romani
Romania
Romanian
Romanic
romanicite
romanisation
Romanise
Romanism
Romanist
Romanistic
romanization

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROMAN-FLEUVE

a cut above
above
achieve
active
Algarve
alive
alternative
archive
arrive
automotive
believe
de Duve
Deneuve
Fauve
interfluve
mauve
Perkin´s mauve
Sainte-Beuve
Struve
Villeneuve

Synonyms and antonyms of roman-fleuve in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «roman-fleuve» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROMAN-FLEUVE

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

Translator English - Chinese

罗马fleuve
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

roman- fleuve
570 millions of speakers

English

roman-fleuve
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रोमन Fleuve
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرومانية fleuve
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Роман - Fleuve
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

roman- fleuve
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রোমান শামুক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

roman- fleuve
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Siput Rom
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

roman- fleuve
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ローマン- fleuve
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

로마 - 뢰브
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Siput Romawi
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

La Mã - Fleuve
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரோமன் நத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रोमन स्नेल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Roma salyangozu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

roman- fleuve
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

roman- fleuve
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Роман - Fleuve
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

roman - Fleuve
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

-ποταμό
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Romeins- Fleuve
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

roman - Fleuve
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

roman - fleuve
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of roman-fleuve

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROMAN-FLEUVE»

The term «roman-fleuve» is used very little and occupies the 153.925 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ROMAN-FLEUVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about roman-fleuve

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROMAN-FLEUVE»

Discover the use of roman-fleuve in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to roman-fleuve and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Gender and Genre in Novels Without End: The British Roman-fleuve
Though Lynette Felber finds these "novels without end" to be "the ultimate pleasurable text," prolonging a moment of Keatsian arrested passion, she claims they have fallen between the cracks of the popular and the canonical novel.
Lynette Felber, 1995
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Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism
The Novel Many major novelists writing in the first thirty or so years of the century contributed to the genre of the roman-fleuve. The term was coined by Romain Rolland, but saga or chronicle novels which trace the fate of recurring family ...
Paul Poplawski, 2003
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Encyclopedia of the Novel
An autonomous fictional world, with recurrent characters and a constant location, for example, in William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, is not sufficient to guarantee a roman-fleuve. Nor is sheer length by itself: even multivolume ...
Paul Schellinger, 2014
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Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
roman-fleuve edge of Persian history and court life — then shows 'Antar in Iran. A later influence is reflected in knowledge of Christianity and the crusades, an understanding of the West far greater than Western understanding of Islam.
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1995
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Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age/Le ...
The Swing in the Garden 100 In his first written statement about the work of art that was to develop into The New Age, Hood employed, as we have seen, the phrase "roman-fleuve" ("Elephant" 101). Clearly, he had been thinking about the  ...
W. J. Keith, 2002
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Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
J. A. Cuddon. roman-fleuve roman-fleuve A term used in modern fiction for a series of novels, each of which exists as a separate novel in its own right but all of which are interrelated because the characters (some or all) reappear in each ...
J. A. Cuddon, 2012
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Colonial Modernity in Korea
This taeha sosol, or roman-fleuve, dealing with the inhabitants of a small village on the Somjin River that divides the two southern provinces of South Kyongsang and South Cholla, had reached twelve long volumes by 1979, when it was ...
Michael Edson Robinson, Gi-Wook Shin, 2001
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Trollope On the Net
1-74; she brings together many earlier studies of Trollope's Palliser novels (by James Kincaid, Jerome Thale, Elizabeth Epperly and others) to demonstrate that Trollope's Palliser novels have all the central characeristics of a roman-fleuve in ...
Ellen Moody, 1999
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Understanding Anthony Powell
Gender and Genre in Novels Without End: The British Roman-Fleuve. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 1995. Considering Powell along with Dorothy Richardson and Anthony Trollope (a choice that would make General Liddament  ...
Nicholas Birns, 2004
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Catastrophe and Imagination: English and American Writings ...
A Fearful Joy is an example of the roman-fleuve, while the Gully Jimson trilogy and the Nimmo trilogy remind us that Cary, like John Dos Passos, has been trying for many years to adapt that traditional organization of experience to the modern ...
John McCormick, 1954

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROMAN-FLEUVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term roman-fleuve is used in the context of the following news items.
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A. Leblond, Sur un monde en ruine. Esthétique du roman-fleuve
Esthétique du roman-fleuve » rend compte de l'ancrage historique et de la poétique du roman-fleuve, à travers les exemples de Romain Rolland, Roger Martin ... «Fabula, May 15»
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À Sao Paulo, la langue portugaise a droit à son musée
Installation géante dédiée au roman-fleuve Diadorim de l'écrivain brésilien Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1908-1967), en mars 2006, peu après son inauguration dans ... «La Croix, Jan 15»
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L'œuvre de Dickens passe plutôt bien
Cette mini-série en huit épisodes de la BBC, débute ce soir sur la chaîne franco-allemande. Une adaptation ambitieuse du roman-fleuve de l'auteur britannique. «l'Humanité, Nov 14»
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Days in the Branch
... of interrelated rural and small-town families in the South, a sort of ever-flowing roman-fleuve. Because I know the person or persons mentioned in an item, and ... «The New Yorker, Nov 14»
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L'Ulysse de Joyce pourra se vivre en réalité virtuelle
Un cinéaste irlandais a le projet de lancer un jeu vidéo recréant l'univers du roman-fleuve. Une expérience qui promet d'être cérébrale. Publicité. Recréer ... «Le Figaro, Jul 14»
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Idées de génies
Les Créateurs » de Daniel Boorstin sont une formidable invitation à célébrer le génie, singulier et universel. Un essai enthousiaste au ton de roman-fleuve. «Le Monde, Mar 14»
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Le roman-fleuve du Prix de la Page 112
Thomas B. Reverdy est le vainqueur du prix avec Les Évaporés. Crédits photo : FRANCOIS LO PRESTI/AFP. LA CHRONIQUE D'ARNAUD LE GUERN ... «Le Figaro, Dec 13»
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London Short Fiction: Bishopsgate
A roman-fleuve. No money made. His house: a small townhouse, uncomfortable bedfellow in Camberwell, sandwiched between upper-middle class denizens ... «Londonist, Nov 13»
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Envie de lire des nouvelles? 5 recueils pour apprivoiser le genre
Et vous, êtes-vous plutôt nouvelle ou roman-fleuve? Si vous n'êtes pas encore des mordus de la nouvelle, voici cinq suggestions de recueils pour apprivoiser le ... «Radio-Canada, Oct 13»
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Livres : le palmarès RTL - "L'Express" du 26 septembre 2013
On se demande bien pourquoi ce Catalan, publié et salué depuis près de 40 ans en Espagne, est quasiment inconnu en France après avoir lu ce roman-fleuve, ... «RTL.fr, Sep 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Roman-Fleuve [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/roman-fleuve>. Apr 2024 ».
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