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novel

See also: Novel, nóvel, növel, nővel, and novèl

English

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Pronunciation

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  • (UK) enPR: nŏvʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈnɒvəl/, [ˈnɒvl̩]
  • (US) enPR: nävʹəl, IPA(key): /ˈnɑvəl/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: novel
  • Rhymes: -ɒvəl

Etymology 1

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From Middle English novel, from Old French novel (“new, fresh, recent, recently made or done, strange, rare”) (modern nouvel, nouveau), from Latin novellus (“new, fresh, young, modern”), diminutive of novus (“new”). Doublet of nouveau.

Adjective

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novel (comparative more novel, superlative most novel)

  1. Newly made, formed or evolved; having no precedent; of recent origin; new.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:new
  2. Original, especially in an interesting way; new and striking; not of the typical or ordinary type.
    Synonym: unusual
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  • Said of ideas, ways, etc.
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Etymology 2

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Front page of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, a notable example of a novel

Borrowed from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novella.

Noun

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novel (plural novels)

  1. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. [from 17th c.]
  2. (historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. [from 16th c.]
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 4:
      merry tales […] such as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels, and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione, which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.
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Descendants
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  • → Bengali: নভেল (nobhel)
  • → Scottish Gaelic: nobhail
  • → Welsh: nofel
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Etymology 3

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From Middle English novel, from Old French novelle, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

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novel (plural novels)

  1. (obsolete) A novelty; something new. [15th–18th c.]
    • 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 7:
      Libum is a cake made of Honey (sugar is a nouvelle, since the discovery of America), meale and oyle.

Etymology 4

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Borrowed from Latin novella, feminine of novellus.

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novel (plural novels)

  1. (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. [from 17th c.]
    • 1979, Jeffrey Richards, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476–752, page 15:
      The normal and natural relationship of emperor and churchman was summed up by Justinian in one of his novels […]

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch novelle, from Italian novella, from Latin novella, feminine of novellus. Doublet of novela and novelet.

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Noun

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novel (first-person possessive novelku, second-person possessive novelmu, third-person possessive novelnya)

  1. (literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella.
    Synonym: roman

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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Middle English

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Noun

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novel

  1. Alternative form of navel

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin novellus, from novus.

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Adjective

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novel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular novele)

  1. new

Declension

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Declension of novel
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject noveus, novex or novels novele novel
Oblique novel novele novel
Plural Subject novel noveles novel
Oblique noveus, novex or novels noveles novel

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Old Occitan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin novellus. Compare Old French novel.

Adjective

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novel m (feminine singular novela, masculine plural novels, feminine plural novelas)

  1. new

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Catalan novell, from Latin novellus. Doublet of novillo.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /noˈbel/ [noˈβ̞el]
  • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: no‧vel

Adjective

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novel m or f (masculine and feminine plural noveles)

  1. novel, new

Noun

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novel m or f by sense (plural noveles)

  1. newbie, green
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