novel
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2.4
- noun
- /ˈnɑːvəl/
:
novela
- So one of my favorite novels is The Known World.
- write a novel
- publish a novel
- read a novel
But this year I read their next novel, which was The Betrayals.
- But this year I read their next novel, which was The Betrayals.
- This is a little sci-fi novel that I enjoyed.
- They both loved James Bond novels, right?
- But do you feel like the novel has become feminine?
- And I encountered the Earthsea novels as a middle schooler.
- It is like some novels, vast and unreadable.
- Into the Drowning Deep is a horror sci-fi novel about mermaids.
- And he wrote this young adult novel called Thief of always.
- So I needed multiple floppy disks to build a novel and I lost them.
- He gave her books to read, scientific studies, novels, challenges to her mind.
- We know you have written a novel and there were no illustrations.
- What's the greatest sci-fi novel of all time in your view?
Examples
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Colum McCann's most recent novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the 2009 National Book Award.
Academic text (2011) -
After years of hard work, he completed his first novel about a journey through a magical world.
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This woman wrote a full novel on her experience there.
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Why did you tell them that my novel was being published?
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And I have to say for a Stephen King novel, it's pretty good.
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I got to know him much better after 1980, when my first novel was published.
Academic text (2011) -
"Am I and my girls to appear in your next novel, sir?" she laughed.
Fiction book (1990) -
The first page of a novel can, and ideally should, accomplish many things.
Academic text (2011) -
But this year I read their next novel, which was The Betrayals.
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This is a little sci-fi novel that I enjoyed.
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- Literature
5
2.7
A story about a crime in which a detective tries to find who did it
- Archaic
1
8.5
A cheap exciting paperback story of adventure popular in late 1800s America
- Specialized
A serious lung disease caused by a new coronavirus that began in 2019 and causes fever, cough, and breathing difficulty
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Etymology
Novel comes from the Latin novus meaning 'new' and from the Italian novella, which meant a short 'new' story; over time it grew to mean the longer new story we now read in book form. So a novel is literally a 'new' kind of story.