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novel Definition


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novel1
noun
    1. A book-length fictional story usually involving relationships between characters, their emotional crises and events concerning them.
      Thesaurus: book, narrative, romance, saga, story, tale, yarn.
    2. Such writing as a literary genre.
      Form: the novel
Derivative: novelish
adj
    Derivative: novelist
    noun
      A writer of a novel or novels.
    Derivative: novelistic
    adj
      Relating to, or characteristic of, novels.
    Etymology: 15c: from Italian novella short story, from Latin novellus new.




    novel2
    adj
      1. New; original; previously unheard-of.
        Thesaurus: new, odd, strange, unique, different, fresh, imaginative, original, singular, uncommon, surprising, unconventional; Antonym: familiar, ordinary.
    Etymology: 15c: from Latin novellus new.



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