English Explanatory Dictionary

Kinbotean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962).
noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

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Etymology

From Kinbote + -an.

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