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kinbotean

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
kin-botean
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962).

noun

A proponent of an interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's 1962 novel Pale Fire according to which the ostensible author John Shade is in fact an invention of the character Charles Kinbote.

Etymology

From Kinbote + -an.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more Kinbotean (comparative) most Kinbotean (superlative) Kinboteans (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Shadean

Questions

What does kinbotean mean?
Of or relating to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962).
Where does kinbotean come from?
From Kinbote + -an.

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