feuilleton

See also: Feuilleton

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌfəɪˈtɑn/,[1] /ˈfʊɪˌtɒn/[2][3]
  • (file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɔɪ.ɪ.tən/,[2] /fə.jə.ˈtoʊn/[4]

Noun

feuilleton (plural feuilletons)

  1. A section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
  2. An article published in such a section.
    • 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part I”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger [], London: Leonard Smithers and Co [], →OCLC, page 2:
      Now and then, when luck had favoured me, I had managed to get five shillings for a feuilleton from some newspaper or other.
    • 1990, Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin: 1900, page 44:
      The feuilleton, like the other serious, trivial, and merely curious stories on the newspaper page, served up an excess of details. For the most part, the feuilleton writer observed, rather than explained.
    • 2008, Mila Ganeva, Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933, page 92:
      Indeed, more recent studies of the FZ [Frankfurter Zeitung] and the feuilleton genre also regard essays on fashion as unworthy of analysis — a gesture very similar to the condescending attitudes toward fashion journalism in the early 1920s.

Translations

References

  1. feuilleton”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. feuilleton”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. feuilleton”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  4. feuilleton”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

feuilleton n (plural feuilletons, diminutive feuilletonnetje n)

  1. feuilleton (section of a newspaper)

Further reading

  • feuilleton” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

From feuillet + -on.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fœj.tɔ̃/
  • (file)

Noun

feuilleton m (plural feuilletons)

  1. (television) soap opera
  2. (literature) serial, feuilleton, literary article

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: feuilleton
  • German: Feuilleton
  • Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone
  • Swedish: följetong

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fe.jeˈtɔn/, /fe.jeˈton/[1], (careful style) /fø.jeˈtɔn/[2]
  • Rhymes: -ɔn, -on
  • Hyphenation: feuil‧le‧ton

Noun

feuilleton m

  1. serialized novel
    Synonym: romanzo d'appendice
  2. (television) soap opera
  • fogliettone

References

  1. feuilleton in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. feuilleton in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Further reading

  • feuilleton in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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