feuilleton

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌfəɪˈtɑn/^[1], /ˈfʊɪˌtɒn/^[2]

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɪ.ɪ.tən/^[3], /fə.jəˈtoʊn/^[4]

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.

• feuilletonist
• roman feuilleton

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

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feuilleton n (plural feuilletons, diminutive feuilletonnetje n)

1. feuilleton (section of a newspaper)

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

From feuillet +‎ -on.

• IPA^(key): /fœj.tɔ̃/

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feuilleton m (plural feuilletons)

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

• → English: feuilleton
• → German: Feuilleton
• → Italian: feuilleton, fogliettone
• → Swedish: följetong
• → Danish: føljeton

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

Unadapted borrowing from French feuilleton (“serial, feuilleton, literary article”).

feuilleton

1. serial in newspaper

• “feuilleton” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from French feuilleton.

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

feuilleton m

1. serialized novel

   Synonym: romanzo d'appendice

2. (television) soap opera

• fogliettone

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