Usually means: Cheap, serialized, popular nineteenth-century fiction.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. dime novel: Merriam-Webster
  2. dime novel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dime novel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dime novel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dime novel: Vocabulary.com
  6. dime-novel, dime novel: Wordnik
  7. dime novel: Wiktionary
  8. dime novel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. dime novel: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Dime novel, dime novel: Dictionary.com
  11. Dime novel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. dime novel: Rhymezone
  13. dime novel: FreeDictionary.org
  14. dime novel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. dime novel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. dime novel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dime novel: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dime novel)

▸ noun:  (US, dated) A cheap pulp novel produced in 19th-century America.

Similar:
penny dreadful, dime store, dime museum, dime, disme, dime's worth, dimestore, five-and-dime, Yankee dime, dimepiece, more...

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penny dreadful, dime store, dime museum, dime, disme, dime's worth, dimestore, five-and-dime, Yankee dime, dimepiece, more...



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