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Definition: Dime Novel |
Dime NovelNoun1. A melodramatic paperback novel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Dime NovelSynonym: penny dreadful (n). (additional references) |
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The British English equivalent term was penny dreadful.
Dime novels and penny dreadfuls often involved melodramatic tales of vice and virtue in conflict, often with strong elements of horror and cruelty.
Many American dime novels, on the other hand, had inspirational themes. Horatio Alger, Jr was a notable writer in this genre.
Philip Pullman has written several "modern penny dreadfuls" in this style including The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well, (The Sally Lockhart Trilogy) which while themselves penny dreadfuls also incorporate the atmosphere in which they thrived.
Stanford University has a collection of over 8,000 individual dime novels, and a web site devoted to the subject.
See also:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dime novel."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Description | Work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable, apologue; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dime novel | 17 |
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| Language | Translations for "dime novel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | groschenroman (cheap novel, novelette, penny dreadful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | regény (novel), ponyvaregény (penny dreadful, shilling dreadful, shilling shocker, shocker), piffpuff regény, limonádé (lemon squash, lemonade, lime juice, rose-water), filléres regény, filléres rémregény. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 黄表紙 (yellow-backed novel), 三文小説 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きびょうし (yellow-backed novel), さ"も"しょうせつ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | imeday ovelnay дешевый бульварный роман (yellowback). (various references) billig sensationsroman. (various references) ucuz roman (pulp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-m-n-o-v" | |
-2 letters: eloined, livened, venomed. | |
-3 letters: delime, devein, dolmen, domine, elevon, emodin, endive, envied, indole, levied, limned, lomein, meloid, milden, moiled, moline, monied, nevoid, oilmen, oleine, omened, veiled, veined. | |
-4 letters: delve, demon, denim, devel, devil, devon, diene, donee, doven, edile, elemi, elide, eloin, emend, envoi, indol, lemon, leone, levin, lieve, limed, limen, lined, lived, liven. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-m-n-o-v" | |
+3 letters: ventromedial. | |
+4 letters: misdeveloping. | |
+5 letters: novemdecillion. | |
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