Kinbotean
English
Etymology
Kinbote + -an
Adjective
Kinbotean (comparative more Kinbotean, superlative most Kinbotean)
- Of or relating to Charles Kinbote, the unreliable narrator in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire (1962).
Noun
Kinbotean (plural Kinboteans)
- (literature) 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.
Coordinate terms
- Shadean