feuilleton

See also: Feuilleton

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːjətɒn/

Noun

feuilleton (plural feuilletons)

1. (British) A section of a European newspaper typically dedicated to arts, culture, criticism, and light literature.
2. (British) An article published in this section.
   • 1899, Knut Hamsun, George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne, translator), Hunger, [1890, Knut Hamsun, Sult], page 18,

     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.

Related terms

• feuilletonist
• roman feuilleton

Translations

section of a newspaper

• German: Feuilleton (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

article that appears in a feuilleton

• Czech: fejeton m
• Dutch: feuilleton (nl) m
• German: Feuilleton (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: felieton (pl) m
• Russian: фельето́н (ru) m (felʹjetón)
• Yiddish: פֿעליעטאָן (felyeton)

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French

Etymology

feuillet +‎ -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fœj.tɔ̃/

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Noun

feuilleton m (plural feuilletons)

1. (television) soap opera

Descendants

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

fogliettone

Further reading

• “feuilleton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /føjˈton/

Noun

feuilleton m

1. serialized novel

   Synonym: romanzo d'appendice

2. (television) soap opera

Related terms

• fogliettone

Further reading

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