Definition of Novelize

1. Verb. Convert into the form or the style of a novel. "The author novelized the historical event"


Definition of Novelize

1. v. i. To innovate.

2. v. t. To innovate.

Definition of Novelize

1. Verb. To adapt something to a fictional form, especially to adapt into a novel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Novelize

1. to put into the form of a novel [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Novelize

novelisation
novelisations
novelise
novelised
novelises
novelish
novelising
novelism
novelisms
novelist
novelistic
novelistically
novelists
novelization
novelizations
novelize (current term)
novelized
novelizer
novelizers
novelizes
novelizing
novella
novellae
novellas
novelle
novellike
novelly
novelries
novelry
novels

Literary usage of Novelize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1918)
"Under the old copyright statute the right to novelize a play in such form as did not result in a " copy " was a right in the public domain and inhered in ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Copyright and Literary Property by William Benjamin Hale (1917)
"Any right to novelize the play in such form as does not result In a 'copy' is a right In the public domain, and would inhere in the first ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"... set out deliberately like Wells to novelize his own life, but who necessarily puts huge chunks of his own experience into his books. ..."

4. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... (in language or religion), novelize (rare). Antonyms: see SINNER, TRANSGRESSOR. innovation, n. novation (rare), ..."

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