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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-27/
- Published: 2019-08-26T18:15:45.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-26T18:35:02.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

bildungsroman (noun) – A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful main character.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/bildungsroman?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Bildungsroman is the combination of two German words: Bildung, meaning “education,” and Roman, meaning “novel.” Fittingly, a bildungsroman is a novel that deals with the formative years of the main character, and in particular, with the character’s psychological development and moral education. The bildungsroman usually ends on a positive note, with the hero’s foolish mistakes and painful disappointments over, and a life of usefulness ahead. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s late 18th-century work Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship) is often cited as the classic example of a bildungsroman. Though the term is primarily applied to novels, in recent years some English speakers have begun to apply it to films that deal with a youthful character’s coming-of-age.