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feuilleton en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfʊɪˌtɒn/ (UK)
  • /ˌfəɪˈtɑn/ (UK)
  • /ˌfəɪˈtɔn/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /fə.jəˈtoʊn/ (General-American)
  • /ˈfəːɪtɒ̃/ (UK)
  • /ˈfɔɪ.ɪ.tən/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree French feuillet French -on French feuilletonbor. English feuilleton Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Meanings

  1. A section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
  2. An article published in such a section.
    • Now and then, when luck had favoured me, I had managed to get five shillings for a feuilleton from some newspaper or other. 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part I”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 2:
    • 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. 2008, Mila Ganeva, Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933, page 92:
    • 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. 1990, Peter Fritzsche, Reading Berlin: 1900, page 44:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
feuilletons Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

feuilletonism

Relateds

roman feuilleton · feuilletonist

Translations (15)

sk fejtón (article that appears in a feuilleton) · ru фельето́н (article that appears in a feuilleton) · de Feuilleton (article that appears in a feuilleton) · uk фейлето́н (article that appears in a feuilleton) · pl felieton (article that appears in a feuilleton) · eo felietono (article that appears in a feuilleton) · eo felietono (section of a newspaper) · sk fejtón (section of a newspaper) · mk фе́љтон (article that appears in a feuilleton) · de Feuilleton (section of a newspaper) · fi följetongi (article that appears in a feuilleton) · yi פֿעליעטאָן (article that appears in a feuilleton) · nl feuilleton (article that appears in a feuilleton) · cs fejeton (article that appears in a feuilleton) · fi följetongi (section of a newspaper)