Zola

[ zoh-luh; French zaw-la ]

noun

1. É·mile [ey-, meel], 1840–1902, French novelist.

Zola

/ zɔla; ˈzəʊlə /

noun

1. ZolaÉmile18401902MFrenchWRITING: novelistWRITING: critic Émile (emil). 1840–1902, French novelist and critic; chief exponent of naturalism. In Les Rougon-Macquart (1871–93), a cycle of 20 novels, he explains the behaviour of his characters in terms of their heredity: it includes L'Assommoir (1877), Nana (1880), Germinal (1885), and La Terre (1887). He is also noted for his defence of Dreyfus in his pamphlet J'accuse (1898)

Other Words From

• Zola·esque adjective

Example Sentences

"The first thing I notice is that when he receives the ball he's already looking to do what is next," said Zola.

From BBC

Zola Hashatsi ka Motsiri said Mr Smith "guided countless of us through high school maths with his TV lessons, leaves behind a legacy cherished by many South Africans".

From BBC

“The Ladies’ Paradise” is the English title of Émile Zola’s 1883 novel, set at a store modeled after Le Bon Marché, still standing in Paris despite the ravages of e-commerce.

From New York Times

Riley Keough, 34, is best known for starring in Amazon's Daisy Jones & the Six and has also appeared in Logan Lucky, Zola, and Mad Max: Fury Road.

From BBC

And sometimes it reaches epic scope, as when a stripper named Zola dropped a 148-tweet thread in 2015 about her misadventures with a fellow stripper in Florida.

From Los Angeles Times