novel
IPA: nˈɑvʌɫ
noun
- A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
- (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
- (obsolete) A novelty; something new.
- (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
adjective
- Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
- Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.
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Examples of "novel" in Sentences
- The book is an epistolary novel.
- The picaresque novel is one of the genres of books.
- The novel is one of the favorite books of Straczynski.
- The novel won the Book of the Year at the 2008 Costa Awards.
- The book is therefore a modern example of an epistolary novel.
- Donna begins to read the novel and falls asleep in the process.
- The novel has strong undertones of surrealism and speculative fiction.
- Thompson defended Mordecai Richler's novel Cocksure in Canada Reads 2006.
- As a teenager she excelled at needlework and enjoyed reading plays and novels.
- She later proved this in her supplementary book about the writing of the novel.
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